Does your toddler love playing with colours? Do they love to play with vegetables? Well, you can combine them both and make an interesting market banner for their pretend market stall. Try out vegetable printing craft along with your child and then pretend play. Check out the the market fun my market banner activity.
Parental Involvement: Medium
Duration: 45 minutes
Skills Acquired: Fine Motor, Coordination, Creativity
Materials
- A4 sheets
- Paint
- Cut vegetables
- A pair of scissors
- Glue
- Yarn
Instructions For Market Fun My Market Banner Activity
- Cut out triangles of the A4 sheets.
- Encourage your child to dip the cut vegetables, one by one, in paint and imprint them on the triangles. We’ve used capsicum, corn, lady’s finger, and carrot.
- Once dry, apply glue stick the vegetable-printed triangles onto the yarn.
Hurray! The market banner is ready.
Make the banner as long as your toddler wants. Use different vegetables, fruits, or even small toys to create interesting patterns. Once done, set up a pretend market stall and put the banner up. Get, set pretend play then!
As your toddler dips the cut vegetables in paint and imprints, their grip improves. Playing with colours to create different imprints induces creativity and imagination.
Activity done by Vishwajeet