Infant Program

december 2022

Over the last several weeks the children have continued to explore different ways of mark-making with different materials on paper; crayons, pencils, paints and pastels. But what could we do to extend the learning even further? The educators had many discussions about what to offer next.

A fresh snowfall created the inspiration to try some snow painting! We put some fresh snow into several bins and brought them inside! A selection of our smaller squeeze bottles was filled with thinned out liquid easel paint and the children were invited to dribble and squeeze paint onto the snow!

What a wonderful way to bring the outdoors in, especially when the wind chill was a little too high for us to be out in the playground! The children were very excited about this new way to use paint (especially when the children know how easily the paint dribbled and poured out!) The photographs really didn’t do justice to the brilliant contrast of the paint against the bright white snow. Hopefully we will be able to try this activity again soon; hopefully we can try it outside!

Don McMahon RECE

Hailee King RECE

Madi Osborne Educator