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I was transported back to my old infant school classroom\u00a0last week during one of our arts and crafts activities. Chatting through some ideas with a\u00a0friend recently, she reminded me about a great activity from our school days. \u00a0Do you remember doing Mirror Painting?<\/div>\n
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How to do Finger Print Mirror Painting<\/h2>\n
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  1. Add paint to a tray.<\/li>\n
  2. Swirl your hands and fingers around in the paint making pictures or patterns.<\/li>\n
  3. Place a sheet of white paper over your “masterpiece” and gently lift if off to reveal a mirror image of your painting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    I had to have a go at this with my kids and they loved it (well mostly).<\/div>\n
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    We drizzled different coloured paints over individual trays (one for each of my kids) and chatted about what we were going to do. The kids then needed no invitation to dive straight into their trays and start tracing out patterns and pictures with their fingers (and hands for my 2 year old!).<\/div>\n
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    My 6 year old wrote his name in his paint, but got a bit of a shock when he printed out it’s mirror image. Not to be deterred, he then set about writing his name backwards, so that he could print it out the correct way. A great spot of problem solving and perseverance.<\/div>\n
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    My 4 year old was pretty happy swirling his fingers around\u00a0in the paint making different patterns and printing these out onto white paper.\u00a0He did get a bit stressed about the mess levels though. \u00a0I always have wipes and\u00a0kitchen towels on stand by to help with this phobia before sending him off to the sink\u00a0to wash the rest off.<\/div>\n
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    We did try and explain the concept to my 2 year old daughter.\u00a0 <\/span>She loved getting her hands in the paint and\u00a0smoothing it out. And she did attempt a few swirls, but then she immediately rubbed\u00a0them out.\u00a0 <\/span> Inevitably though, as painting activities\u00a0often seem to go with my daughter, she ended up smearing the paint over her hands\u00a0and arms. I had to step in again with the wipes to swiftly avert a paint\u00a0covered house disaster!<\/div>\n
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    The boys got more imaginative as the session went on and\u00a0they had a whole table full of pictures created in no time at all.<\/div>\n
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    We left the pictures to dry and when they had they looked\u00a0even more impressive.\u00a0 <\/span>We will definitely\u00a0be doing this activity again experimenting with using different colour\u00a0combinations and thinking of new ideas for pictures to create.<\/div>\n
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    I was transported back to my old infant school classroom\u00a0last week during one of our arts and crafts activities. Chatting through some ideas with a\u00a0friend recently, she reminded me about a great activity from our school days. \u00a0Do you remember doing Mirror Painting? 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