Benefits of Finger painting include:
- It is an excellent tactile experience.
- It stimulates your child’s senses. (Touch/feel, sight, smell, edible finger paint= taste)
- It helps a child’s intellectual development. The mixing of colors teaches your child about their colors and how to create new colors
- It allows them to use their imagination and create
- It is emotionally soothing (in most cases).
- It encourages cognitive development.
- It strengthens the hand and fingers which helps with fine motor skills.
- Most importantly, it is FUN!
Starting to paint our butterflies.
Things got a little messy, and a whole lotta fun!
Paint everywhere! Even on Ms. Kaitlyn!
But it caused a lot of smiles.
Good thing it's washable paint! ;)
The beautiful aftermath.