Snail Stamping

(Art)

Stamping on paper is a fun project for all. Our 2 years and 7 months old toddler loves it so that we’ve made lots of stamping art and craft.

She saw a snail for the first time (that she realized of) last month. She just saw another 3 snails again yesterday afternoon. Unlike me who was raised in nature, she’s a city girl and snails are treasure to find in our neighborhood. To celebrate, I decided to make snail stamping art together with her.

Materials:

-paints

-tube block or halved carrot or halved onions

-papers

-oil pastels

-a tray

Instruction:

-stamp the snail‘s house using paint and block or vegetable

-let the paint dry overnight

-draw body, tails, and head of the snail using oil pastels

I prepared a tray with 2 homemade flour paints, a tube Hape block for stamping, a few sheets of construction paper and a black oil pastel. After so many times doing art session with her, I’ve learned my lesson to prepare more than one sheet of paper. Process art with toddler could be unexpected, so always prepared for more for any “in case” scenario. She used up to 8 sheets of paper for this project alone, most likely because stamping is super easy to do. After the 8th paper she preferred to continue painting using her fingers though.

She also loved to mix the color. As can be seen from the following picture, most of the circle has mix colors.

We needed to let the paint dried off overnight.

The next morning, we continued our snail art. I only prepared the black crayon at first, but she asked for more colors. So we took the whole set of oil pastels. I gave her freedom to chose which color to make head, body and tail of each snail.

I would ask, “Which snail to paint now?”

She would answer, “This one” while pointing which snail she would like to be painted first.

I would ask, “Which color?”

She would then give and shout a particular color for me to draw on the rest of the snail’s body and tail. I drew 2 lines coming off the top of the head with an eye on top of each as well. Sometimes she asked me to paint the body and tail just with one particular color, but mostly she liked it to be multicolor. The merrier the better.

We began this art session as a way to celebrate our rare snail finding, but it soon became color recognition game in the process.

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