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Lets explore Paint!
What a lovely morning our teina have had inside today at BestStart Karaka. We decided to put on our aprons and do a spot of painting on our tēpu (table) next door in the spare room, we try utilising this space a lot on our rainy days for things such a messy play, physical activity ect.
We placed some small amounts of colourful paints on some large pieces of paper. We watched as our infants began to approach the experience at their own pace. We observed how every tamariki displayed their own unique expressions and reactions to the feel, smell and visual impacts of their interactions with the paint. We allowed our tamarki to take the lead of their engagement and what this looked like for them.
Some of our more confident explorers wanted to be fully immersed in the paint and enjoyed every movement, using their whole bodies to explore whereas others were just happy using their fingers, hands to explore. As our tamariki explore with their senses of taste, touch, smell, sight, they are learning how to make sense of their world around them.
Through exploring these mediums, they are strengthening their fine and gross motor skills, as they feel, squeeze, and move the paint around with their bodies. As our team of friendly kaiako talk to them about what they may be feeling, seeing, hearing and sometimes even tasting, they are developing language, social skills and enjoying experimenting with their own ideas.