Art Box for 2 year old.

dooj

sometimes cheap book shops (bookworld) have cheap stationery like nice coloured card and paper and paints, also au natural which is mostly a furniture/nik naks shop has recently had some kids arty stuff in like glitter and glue and crayons and pens and stuff.
You can also get rolls of stickers from £ shops which kids seem to like to make pictures with.
There is also hole punches you can get that punch out lots of different shapes, if you look in some christmas catalogues you can order them there.
If you want to make painting more exciting then buy normal children's poster paint then add stuff to it like washing up liquid to do bubble pictures by blowing through a straw, also you can add sand to give the paint a different texture and add glitter to the paint for christmassy pictures, you can also add flour to thicken paint for finger painting.
Wrapping paper comes in lots of different colours and textures and is often cheaper than packs of paper, get friends and family to keep wrapping paper from birthdays and christmas and also keep birthday/ christmas cards as they are a nice thickness for cutting.
Hope this helps

Gingham_Ribbon

Wow! This is GREAT! We are going to have so much fun. Thank you all so much.

Petal_3

try https://www.bakerross.co.uk and look in their Sale section

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Gingham_Ribbon

Since we're getting into the whole arty playing thing, does anyone have a good recipe for playdough?

Penny-Pincher!!

My DD is art mad! Shes 10 but has been into art since about 2 too..lol.

I have done art boxes before for her and still do now when needing topping up. She normally has pens, chalks, crayons, pvc glue, card, paper, stickers, baby scissors, ruler, pencil, rubber, sharpener, ribbon, material, glitter, scrap book, paints, plastacine ec etc.

Good Luck

PP
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bethom

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

Since we're getting into the whole arty playing thing, does anyone have a good recipe for playdough?

You could try this. Hope this works as it is first time I have done this.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=80278&highlight=playdough

funky-footprints

playdough recipe ..

2 cups of plain flour
1 cup of salt
2 cups of water
2 tsps of cream of tartar
2 tbsps of cooking oil
food colouring

put all ingredients into a pan and cook them for about 3 minutes. when cooked remove from pan and knead into a ball. store in air tight bags or containers.

have fun !! the kids will love making this, more than the palydough after.
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jenpoptab

Have a look at what your nearest community education runs.

They run "paper paint and play" here which is fantastic way of getting kids involved in creating arty bits and gives me loads of ideas and confidence of things to do at home.

Yesterday we made a door sign & string paints, last week a messy t-shirt using pens, last term we iced biscuits, made salt dough etc .

Best of all it's free here, so check out what's on offer by you and they may be able to help.

Good luck.

rammy007

Been in asda today and they had a 140 piece creative (roseart) art box for £5 these looked brilliant and were flying off the shelves.

Splashie

to make things for his making box get some scissors with zigzag edges and old magazines and cut out interesting bits or shapes or even freehand shapes on paged with lots of one colour. That way he has a bunch of pics of flowers or stars or food he can incorperated on to his own drawings.
Other things I loved as a making kid:
pipecleaners
Sequins
glitterpens
broken up poystyrene (great for clouds!)
toilet rolls
sweet wrappers (the seethrough ones are great if you cht holes in black paper and stich them over the wholes to make a suncatcher thingy)
insides of old computer floppy disks
casseset tape
cut up CD's (he's obviously to wee for that but it is ace when you are older)
old jigsaw (can paint bright colours - I make holly wreths by ticking them in a circl painting green and then red dots!)(

Hope some of this is helpful

Splashie