Ungifted mummy

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I am really terrible at all things arty cannot draw to save myself. My 3 year old loves drawing/play doh/ moon sand anything that is a bit creative and she loves doing it. Can anyone help with ideas to keep her interested as I am totally unimaginative with any arty projects.

Both my children love art and craft while i am not very creative. Ideas that I have pinched and that they love are

painting with q tips.
finger painting
drawing around their bodies on huge paper and colouring them in/drawing on clothes and faces
sidewalk chalk
magic drawings (their absolute favourite, ds can do his own and I set some up for dd) draw patterns and letters in white crayon on white paper and paint over with dilute food dye (the patterns etc emerge)

Cut up coloured paper into rough squares, print out simple outline pictures from clip art and let her stick them on like a mosaic - silver foil and a fish shape work well.

If you have a recycling box and some pva glue or sellotape then let her loose junk modelling. My dcs still love this at 7 and 10.

They can also have a lot of fun with a pack of straws and some sellotape.

She can work on her scissor skills with some folded paper, cutting out shapes to make snowflakes.

You could also halve some potatoes and cut some shapes into them for stamping (dip in paint and stamp on brown paper to make wrapping paper) You can do this with sink sponges too.

Mine love to glue and stick too - Mosaics are easy - just cut up lots of different coloured bits of paper and let her make patterns with them, sticking them onto paper.

There are loads of art sites online. I will have a hunt.

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I have also remembered that nursery used to ask for our bubblewrap as it was fun to paint and then print with.

She could also paint pasta and similar and stick it to cardboard cut into shape to make a picture frame or do the same to a plant pot with shells collected from a beach.

Pebbles are fun to paint as ladybirds or hedgehogs etc and can be varnished and made into paperweights as gifts.

Salt dough is much like playdough but can be dried out and painted as well.

Cheap rice in a jam jar shake it up with food colouring. Make several colours and make a picture.
Easier to stick than pasta and dried peas and more colourful. Keeps for ever, I have some that must be 10 years old. Also the mixed colour scrap stays a usable rainbow not mucky brown.

Loads of things to do with paper plates.
Google is your friend, huge amount of stuff from American Sunday schools.

Thank you so much everyone some great ideas here x