Cost: $0.50
Skills learned: Fine motor, creativity
Age: 6m+
Rating (out of 4 stars): 2
I have tried several different ways in the past to try and interest Izzy in finger painting, but nothing has really worked. However, today's technique seemed to interest him a little more than all the others... finger painting with baby food! For set up, I thought a piece of card stock would work the best so I taped it to the table, scooted his high chair up nice and close and put a dollop of mixed veggies on the paper for him to smear around. I let him have the spoon as well to see if he would be interested in self feeding (he self feeds with his fingers, but we haven't learned how to use a spoon yet). He thought it was pretty good fun trying to eat the veggies with his fingers, smearing them around the paper, and when the paper had been thoroughly soaked through with veggies, tearing the paper off the table. And as he would get low on veggie mounds, I would just scoop more onto his paper for him to smear around. This was definitely the most successful medium we have used for edible finger painting thus far and probably the healthiest too. As far as clean up, it actually wasn't too much worse than him just eating the veggies for lunch (and he needed a bath besides).
Cost: $0.50 Skills learned: Fine motor, creativity Age: 6m+ Rating (out of 4 stars): 2
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AuthorHi! My name is Cassity and I am the mom to a little 2 year old boy named Izzy and a baby girl named Sydney. I am lucky enough to get to be a stay-at-home mom to them and we have fun thinking of new activities to do together in the afternoons. We created this blog as an opportunity to share those activities with you. Archives
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