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'sticking' as an activity
« on: December 01, 2013, 13:47:55 pm »
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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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2013, 13:50:22 pm »
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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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2013, 13:53:55 pm »
Do you have to help her with the glue?





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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2013, 13:58:20 pm »
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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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2013, 14:34:03 pm »
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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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2013, 14:36:06 pm »
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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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2013, 14:52:01 pm »
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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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2013, 15:16:29 pm »
What about glitter for general sticking? It doesn't require a lot of finesse.
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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2013, 16:45:52 pm »
C has been using a glue stick for a good while but we started off with pva and a spreader.




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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2013, 16:53:51 pm »
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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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2013, 17:36:49 pm »
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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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #11 on: December 01, 2013, 17:44:35 pm »
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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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2013, 19:01:42 pm »
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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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2013, 19:03:21 pm »
Glad I didn't mis-quote you ;)

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Re: 'sticking' as an activity
« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2013, 19:09:13 pm »
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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