I don't remember much from my pre-school class (hmm, I wonder why), but the one thing that always sticks out was pudding painting. I remember being outside, making handprints and footprints, and squishing the pudding in between my fingers and toes! Pudding painting is about he easiest "craft" you can do with your kids, namely toddlers. It is also a wonderful sensory activity. Besides that it is fun finger painting, the kids can eat it! The first time Ruthie did pudding painting, we used chocolate pudding. This time, I whipped up a batch of instant vanilla pudding, separated it into 4 containers, added food coloring, and shook them to mix. The colors were very bright, even with only a couple drops of food color. I thought it looked great. The kids really didn't care that much though, they just loved making a mess!
Simple instructions:
Mix instant pudding according to package directions.
Once mixed, separate into four* small tupperwares. I used Glad containers with twistable lids. The lids gave me piece of mind: no spilling while mixing!
Add just a couple drops of food color, replace lid and shake.
Take the kids outside and let them go to town!
*Note: you can obviously do more or less than 4, but I wanted to mix things up without going overboard!
My kids enjoyed it for a while, and then they started throwing pudding at each other. But oh well, we were outside, so the only thing to do was get out of their way!
Happy "painting!"
-Anne
