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Free Drawing Prompts for Kids and Adults

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Today I’m sharing with you two fun drawing and colouring sheets from the new book Draw With Me, Dad, designed to get you and your kids enjoying this fun activity together while also including some prompts to help you connect. I’ve also got a great giveaway where you could win a copy of the book too!

drawing prompts for kids

Draw With Me, Dad is by Dr Jasmine Narayan, a Licensed Psychologist who attained her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Hartford. Her book is is shaped to make colouring side by side easier. Each spread features prompts for you and your child to draw together and fill in the scene. Work together to complete an underwater sea party, dinosaur family vacation, and so much more! You can find out more about the book or order a copy from it’s publishers Quarto Knows here.

Download your free drawing prompts for kids from Draw With Me, Dad

Click here to download the pets drawing prompt

Click here to download the jobs drawing prompt

Free Colouring Pages for Kids and Adults

I love sharing free colouring pages, if you love them too why not check out some of the ones below?

Colour With Me, Mum – mummy and me colouring pages

Seahorse Colouring Page

Enchanted Garden Colouring Page

Flamingo Colouring Page

 

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Simple Fresh Flower Playdough

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We love sharing sensory play ideas for kids and been doing a lot of sensory activities with flowers in the last couple of weeks at my daughter’s insistence, I think we’re just both very pleased to see some decent weather arrive and some flowers along with it! This fresh flower playdough only takes a couple of minutes to make and is a fun and inexpensive way to keep the kids busy and happy so it’s great if you need activities for toddlers but it’s still good fun for older kids too. Hunting for the flowers in the dough gives kids a different kind of way to play with playdough, of course you could get the normal cutters and so on out, but we enjoyed hunting for the hidden gems inside it and umm… making cups of floral playdough tea.

simple fresh flower playdough…

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Three Ingredient Wildflower Goop

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You know those days, the ones where you can’t face playing Batman / play doh / Peppa any more? You really just can’t do it? Well yesterday was one of those days and I was in desperate need of some new activities for toddlers. I rummaged through my craft supplies, trying to think of something that wouldn’t end with us covered in paint and…nothing. So something new was called for. Thankfully while I was making an emergency cup of tea I fell upon one of the ingredients for goop, a quick expedition into garden and we have wild flower goop, the pretty version of messy play. And I worked out how to not get messy either, yes really, read on my friend….

three ingredient flower goop…

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Flower Garden Sticky Wall

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My daughter had so much fun today with this flower garden sticky wall that I had to get the laptop out and type it up as soon as she’d fallen asleep. My kids love sensory play ideas and I do too, it’s so nice to work out some activities for toddlers that have no mess at all, bliss! This activity is great for toddlers and younger kids as there’s loads of learning in it for them, but older kids will enjoy the chance to make something pretty with a different kind of canvas.

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A Quick Lightsaber DIY

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Yesterday my son came home from school with a challenge. He didn’t see it as a challenge of course, to him it was a reasonable request – tucked away in his school bag was a stick. ‘Mummy, I want to make a lightsaber’. Of course. This was given the added bonus that I’d spent the last three days ill on the sofa unable to do anything, but as everyone knows all mums are secret magicians and if your child turns to you and expects you to be able to turn a stick into a lightsaber then some how you need to be able to make that so. This is a properly quick lightsaber diy, not the kind of nature craft that makes you ooh and want to be a hippy mum but the kind of real, achievable diy that you can do with your kids, even from your sick bed, and your kids are happy with the results. I guess that’s what crafting is round here after all.

lightsaber diy

So this is what we did, I dragged my sorry self out into the garden to look for another stick for the youngest (because otherwise hell would break out) and then the kids chose what colour they wanted their lightsabers to be. Red for the eldest while the little broke hers in half and decided that she wanted blue and yellow. Not super Star Wars-ish but if anyone’s on the Dark Side it’s her and we know better than to argue about these things.

We made our lightsabers by wrapping the sticks in electrical tape, you can pick up a pack of five or six colours in the pound shop normally. Although normally I’d like the idea of painting these or something a bit more nature craft-y I have to admit this was great as it means the colours were really strong and also meant that while I was ill I didn’t have to deal with two paint covered children. Bonus.

Both kids were super pleased with their lightsabers and both of them actually wanted to pose with them for me to take photos of them for this post, and you know what? They were great pictures. Probably the best in-action ones I’ve taken of my kids for this blog. But my daughter’s clothes are covered in about 5 different kinds of soft fruit and my son was wearing his school uniform. Typical! So the pictures aren’t perfect but they did have loads of fun playing with these, not a bad craft to come up with when you’re at home ill!

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