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Exploring the Magic of Colour Mixing with Pottery Painting

At Marlowe’s Mini Makers, we know that creativity is about more than just making art—it’s about learning, growing, and having fun along the way. That’s why our pottery painting kits are now better than ever, moving forward our sets will feature a thoughtfully curated set of six paints: the three primary colours (red, blue, and yellow), black, white, and a stunning sparkly opalescent paint. Combined with our included printed colour wheel, these kits transform your child’s craft time into an exciting and educational journey.

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How Pottery Painting Sparks Creativity and Supports Early Development

Pottery painting is more than just a fun craft; it’s a creative journey that nurtures your child’s development in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and beyond. From colour selection to brushwork, every step provides an opportunity for self-expression, fine motor skill development, and creative thinking.

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Nature’s Palette: A Colourful Scavenger Hunt for Kids and Adults

For young children, the outdoors provides an ideal learning environment, ripe with possibilities for discovery and growth. In the great outdoors, a colour scavenger hunt might be one of the most exciting things to do with kids. This engaging activity does double duty by improving kids’ observational and intellectual abilities while also instructing them on the variations of colour. The best part is that it doesn’t take much preparation and is fun for kids of all ages, from toddlers to preschoolers. Read on for some advice on how to organise a fun colour scavenger hunt for your kids. Be set to feel the excitement of exploring nature’s colourful palette.

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Support Childhood Development With Water Play

You may have seen recently that we’ve launched a brand new play session at Imagiplayy! Based on water, Little Splashers is a new fun-filled weekly play session that runs every Tuesday 2-3 pm.

It isn’t all just about fun though, in everything we do there are underlying educational or developmental benefits and water play has so much to offer, so let’s explore what some of those benefits are.

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Loose Parts Play

Loose parts are what make up the term loose parts play. They are objects or materials that can be moved, carried, combined, redesigned, lined up, and taken apart and put back together in multiple ways. They are materials or objects with no specific directions or way of play that can be used alone or combined with other materials.

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Heart Printing

Heart printing picture

I as the parent really enjoyed this activity as it was very minimal set up. The idea behind this was to use Marlowe’s final masterpiece to make a Valentines Day card for daddy.

You don’t have to make a card though, you can just make a really cool heart print to hang on the wall.

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