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ACTIVITY => Activity Time & Toddler Activity => Topic started by: anna* on December 01, 2013, 13:47:55 pm
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From what age was your little one able to manage a stick of glue and do 'sticking' as an activity? Audrey LOVES sticking stickers on to things but it gets quite pricey, the rate she goes through them...
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J is just getting into it now, I would have thought it would be a great time for A :). I know cathn said on another thread that a Pritt Stick was one of her LO's favourite presents too!
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Do you have to help her with the glue?
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To get things properly stuck, yes. But she will have a good go of daubing it all over the paper and then sprinkling a few things approximately in the right places :)
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F was definitely having a go by 2, if I cut out shapes or pictures for her and gave hera BIG piece of paper she could get most of them on. More recently she had lots of fun tearing a piece of tinfoil into tiny pieces and sticking them onto coloured card, which doesn't require a lot of accuracy with either distribution of glue or placement, but was actually really pretty.
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E loves stickers too and they are pricey. I haven't done this with her at home but at nursery they do "free sticking" where the nursery helper puts glue all over a piece of paper and she has then stuck things (cotton wool, leaves, other) on the paper wherever she wants
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Have you tried making your own stickers Anna? I posted a link on it many years ago with the recipe - probably sometime in winter 2009 when DS was that age. I can't search but I think mods probably still can? Basically it is like making a jello/gelatin but really thick, and then painting it on paper (activity in itself), letting it dry, and then cutting it into shapes and you have licking stickers
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What about glitter for general sticking? It doesn't require a lot of finesse.
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C has been using a glue stick for a good while but we started off with pva and a spreader.
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I sense a decluttering opportunity here! Do any of your los mind sticker pages that have already been started? We have a tendency to start books and DS never finishes them off - which drives me up the wall. But if I could post the stickers to someone I might feel better about it!
Anyone interested?? If so, please pm me your address.
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Or get those coloured glue and you dab on many places and she can stick whatever cut outs on the colour spots?
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Ey, all three kids (DH, Stan, Aud) had a great time sticking tiny bits of tin foil this afternoon. Such concentration!
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I know cathn said on another thread that a Pritt Stick was one of her LO's favourite presents too!
He he - yep L has inexpensive tastes lol!
I don't really buy her stixkers that much but cut up old magazines, cards, wrapping paper, catalogues, junk mail... and L makes collages with that. Also have a load of coloured tissue paper I've saved from gifts.
Can't remember when she started with a pritt stick but some time between 1st and 2nd birthdays.
It's only recently she's been interested in making pictures/patterns /designs with the sticking. Before then she was quite happy just to stick things all over the place. Most often she sticks onto paper but sometimes onto an old tissue box or loo roll or something like that.
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Glad I didn't mis-quote you ;)
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LOl!
I hadn't even thought of pritt-stick. What a great idea, we'll be doing some of that tomorrow then :) sounds like fret fun!
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Just a warning - my DS tries to eat glue sticks :-X :P ::)
I can only let him use PVA under strict supervision! ;)
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Hehehe there's always one HH ;) :-* :P
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Lol HH! Finally at 3 my Z likes to stick ::)
My mil has an easel which he uses a lotto. Paste - then stick. I think it's easier for him to focus standing with an easel for some reason...and less messy.
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Darn, looks like those activity book pages will have to go in the bin! I am such a completer-finisher - and DS is not!
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Ey, all three kids (DH, Stan, Aud) had a great time sticking tiny bits of tin foil this afternoon. Such concentration!
;D
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Just a warning - my DS tries to eat glue sticks :-X :P ::)
I can only let him use PVA under strict supervision! ;)
HH if he loves using glue, you can make it by boiling rice in water. The starchy fluid can be used as glue. Or my grandmother used to put a grain of cooked rice, squashed it on paper and it sticks really well.