Foam Window Art: Mix and Match Spring Flowers

Older Toddler+

We just love window art - and of course it doesn't hurt that we have an enormous wall of windows in our living room.  ;)  

Foam window art is another way to brighten up your house, and it's so fun to be able to make art on unusual surfaces like windows.

Foam sheetsare fairly inexpensive (in fact, I've recently seen large multicolored packs at the Dollar Store), so we like to use them in a lot of our play.

S loves to cut foam with her scissors, but since she's still learning the ropes of cutting shapes, she prefers to have some precut shapes to work with.  For younger children, it's fun to practice shapes/colors with foam window art.  Older children might like building blocks or more elaborate scenes.  Because it was a rainy winter day, but we're at least getting closer to spring, we decided to make a field of spring flowers on the windows.  

To do a project like this, you'll just need some precut foam shapes, and a shallow dish of water.  

Your child simply dips the shape in the water and then places it on the window.  The water makes the foam stick to the glass (this also works on bathtub walls - so it's a fun thing to incorporate into baths as well)!  Depending on how dry your house is and how often the shapes are disturbed, they can last for around 24-48 hours on glass.

I provided S with several different shaped sections of grass, different length/width stems, different sized/shaped leaves, different colored/sized flower centers, and different colored petals.

 There was a little troubleshooting involved as well as S soon figured out that if the foam did not have a good amount of surface contact with the glass it wouldn't stick.  She needed to space her flowers out a bit more to get petals on all of them.

And here she is with her completed field of spring flowers.  They really brightened up our living room on an otherwise gray and rainy winter day.  :)

And here's an older picture of her with the foam square set that we use as building blocks.  We worked together to make a house and she used her cutting skills to make smoke coming out of the chimney and a front door for the house.  I'm not sure what it is about foam window art that makes her squinty, but it sure seems to!  Hahaha.

The foam is totally reusable for another day of window/bath art and can of course be used on paper with glue for art projects (or for contact paper window art).

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