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Toddler Art Activities: Non-Messy Sticky Art. No Glue Required.

This simple art activity is so much fun for babies who are sitting or standing and younger toddlers.

As I share in my new book, Time to Create, the process of doing in art activities is so much more important for young children than the end result, and this activity provided AJ (at twelve months of age) with lots of opportunity to ‘do.’

Childhood 101 | Creative Play for Babies & Toddlers

Toddler Art Activities: Non-Messy Sticky Art

I prepared a small basket with some flattened patty pans/cupcake wrappers, cut into halves and quarters.

Childhood 101 | Creative Play for Babies and Toddlers

I lifted the corners of the backing sheet of a piece of clear, self adhesive book covering and taped it to the window (sticky side out so it didn’t stick to the window), removing the backing sheet once we were ready to start.

Childhood 101 | Art Ideas for Babies and Toddlers

I showed AJ that the surface was sticky and how to push the patty pan to the book covering so that it would stick.

Childhood 101 | Creative Play - Sticky Art for Babies and Toddlers

She had a wonderful time pressing the patty pans onto the surface and as soon as she saw that we had a bit of a collection going she started pulling them off again.

Childhood 101 | Creative Art and Play for Babies and Toddlers

And pushing them on and pulling them off and pushing them on and pulling them off. You can see lots of little finger prints on the sticky surface as testimony to this.

Childhood 101 | Sticky Play for Babies and Toddlers
At one stage our sticky art looked like the photo above but it wasn’t for long. I left it hanging in the playroom, together with the basket and a few leftover patty pans and AJ came back to it many times in the days that followed, to push on or pull off more of the wrappers until all I was left with was a blank sheet of sticky book covering decorated with fingerprints.

The wonderful thing about process art is that it doesn’t matter, as it was the process that was most important and we sure had a lot of fun with the doing!

Have you tried sticky art with your little person?

Christie Burnett is an early childhood teacher, presenter, writer and the editor of Childhood 101. More importantly, she is a Mum who believes wholeheartedly in the value of children learning through play, the importance of quality early education, and the togetherness of family.

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  1. Faigie says

    May 29, 2013 at 8:18 AM

    It's sad that so many people don't get this process thing for little ones. When my oldest was in her first nursery program I took her for her orientation. There were tables set up with various things for the kids to do. A new young assistant was walking around talking to the kids. One child had sat down at the collage table, taken one piece of paper and stuck it with some paste to her paper and she was done. The new teacher, who was a natural picked up the paper, turned it over and said to the child "Oh look, it sticks". She was naturally aware of what kids were learning at that stage, that glue sticks things to paper.
  2. Mandy says

    May 29, 2013 at 11:21 AM

    Love this. Such a simply yet effective idea.

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