Printing with shapes

Ages 3 to 5 Read and do together · about 20 minutes

Read together

Dip it. Press it. Lift it. A print!

The same shape, again and again.

Do it

1. Find things to print with: a sponge cut into shapes, a cardboard tube, a cut potato (a grown-up cuts it), a leaf.
2. Pour a little washable paint on a plate. Dip a shape in it and press it on paper.
3. Make a pattern: circle, square, circle, square.
4. Make wrapping paper or a card for someone.

Talk about it

• What pattern did you make?
• Which shape makes the best print?

For the grown-up

Printing is repeating a shape, a good way to practise patterns. Use washable, non-toxic paint and old clothes.

Mark as done

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