Fingerpaint a wildflower wonderland
What better way to celebrate the beauty of wildflowers than to paint your very own wildflower wonderland – all without picking up a paint brush!
For this activity, you’ll need:
- White card
- Fingerpaint in a variety of colours (light green, dark green, blue, white, red, yellow, and purple)
- A sponge
- Your fingers, of course!
Begin with your background
- Place a piece of white card landscape on a hard surface
- Starting with the sky, add some blue paint to the top half of your card, on the left-hand side
- Next, take a sponge (or your fingers) and drag it across the card from one side to the other, sweeping the paint across the page
- Now, do the same with the light green paint on the bottom half of the page to create your grass
Time to get messy!
- Now it’s time to let your creative juices flow and get fingerpainting
- Place the entire length of your finger into some dark green paint and print onto the ‘grass’ to create the stem of your wildflower
- To paint the petals of your wildflowers, simply place your fingertip into the different colours of paint and print onto the top of your stems
Here are some wildflower ideas:
- Use red paint to print four petals on top of a stem to create a poppy
- Use white paint to print as many petals as you can onto the top of a stem. Finish with a yellow dot in the centre to create a daisy
- Use pink paint to print a dot at the top of a stem. Drag your nail through the paint in different directions to create the spikes of a thistle
- Print blue or purple dots up the length of a stem to create bluebells
- Print some small yellow dots around your grass to create buttercups
We’d love to see your colourful masterpiece. Share a picture of your wildflower wonderland using #DobbiesLittleSeedlings and tag us