![]() We laughed a lot as we created lots of very strange faces together, and while we giggled Noah was also working on lots of fine motor skills that he’ll need for writing. I love that this person has blue earrings and dangerously spiky eyelashes! I put a large sheet of paper down to make a clear space for our creations and this activity was ready to go. We added a bunch of loose parts to our facial features – tooth picks, wooden rings and half rings, string and wool pieces, craft sticks, wooden mosaic shapes, glass nuggets and plastic gems, and some rubber bands. You could collect images from magazines and do the same thing, but I’ve made it a bit easier to get started, check out the end of this post for a free printable set of facial features. Then I printed them onto photo paper and cut them out. We collected some family photos and digitally ‘cut out’ the facial features. Some cut out facial features (see the free printable below).Making crazy faces is such a simple activity to set up, but it really sparked my children’s imaginations, and caused lots of giggles! Plus it offers lots of opportunities to learn and practice a variety of skills. While loose parts play is awesome with whatever treasures you have, we’ve come up with a way to make it even more fun, add some facial features and make some crazy faces! It tells you all about it, and has loads of ideas for items you can collect to add to this fun opened ended play. If you are not sure what loose parts play is, pop over and read this post about loose parts play. I love it, my kids love, we all really, really, love it!īefore I’d heard of it’s trendy name, we called it ‘tiny treasures’ play, as my kids always thought the glass gems and other little things were like little treasures! But ‘loose parts’ is a much better name for it, because the things we include in this kind of open-ended, child lead, play are not always tiny! And these printable facial features make setting up this make a face loose parts play so easy!Ĭan I tell you how much I love ‘loose parts’ play? Kids of all ages will love this fun crazy faces activity.
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