Indoor Activity For Kids:

Kitchen tools as paintbrushes

This activity takes painting to the next level, by using kitchen tools as paint brushes.

A potato masher would make awesome prints if paired with paint and paper. And I wonder what a fork and cookie cutters would look like. Fun!

This activity is inspired by ideas from Kitchen tools as paintbrushes.

This activity is great to teach your kids:

Fine motor skills involve movement of the smaller muscle groups in your child's hands, fingers, and wrists.

Developing fine motor skills will help your child to write and prepares her for school. But it will also help your children with everyday tasks like eating, and dressing themselves.

Sensory play is play that involves all the senses - taste, sound, sight, touch and smell. Sensory play is very beneficial to children. Research shows that sensory play builds nerve connections in the brain’s pathways, which lead to the child’s ability to complete more complex learning tasks. Sensory play is also very relaxing and rejuvenating to children.

Step 1

Get out fun kitchen tools

Step 2

Supply the kitchen tools to your kids to paint with

In the end, this kept my son entertained and painting for nearly 20 minutes – what a great return of investment on a 30 second set up!
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