It's fair to say that Boo's enthusiasm for my art projects is not always erm, well, overwhelming - usually she's deep in her imaginative play and doesn't want to stop when this happens. Actually I'm taking her slightly less clinging demeanour of late as a good sign that we are perhaps moving through the 'difficult' post-baby-birth period and I'm hoping it means she feels more secure in her attachment to me. Anyhow, she said no to this activity, so I just went ahead and started it myself. Sometimes I wonder if I devise these things for myself anyway.. (actually I know I do, at least in part!).
I had been thinking about activities using scissors as Boo struggles with them and I'd like to encourage her to get comfortable using them. I know she can manage to cut a straight line if I put her fingers in the scissors in the right way, so I thought we could do a bit of paper weaving, the first stage of which would be cutting out the strips of paper.
So, the strips of paper turned out rather neater than those I was expecting to be produced at the hands of my preschooler! I simply used a ruler to mark out widths and cut equal strips from different brightly coloured paper (IKEA). Then, to make it a bit more interesting, I used Boo's Stockmar block crayons to create some colour/texture variation on the surface.
Then the weaving began, and who should I find taking an interest.. Boo of course. Create, and they will come. In the end it was the weaving aspect that hooked in the little artist, and she sat on my knee and helped me weave the paper under and over, under and over.
Looking forward to some more weavy activities with the small one, building up to a small weaving loom at some point.
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