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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | UNCRC Craft ideas for play  Themed preschool activities           Muddy pig paint and colour blending activity have fun mark making with paint as children role play with pig stampers and colour blend to experiement with red, green/ blue and yellow paint to make brown mud coloured flooring.  Activity resources pink, white or peach coloured card   access to a printer   glue   curled ribbon or paper strips for piggy tails   felt or foam padding   red, green and yellow poster paint   green drinking straws   scissors - left handed & right   A4 base paper or larger if providing for a group activity   sawdust as an additional medium   muddy pig paint stamper    Making the paint stampers 1. print out a required number of pig templates on card 2. fold the pigs in half at the point where the heads meet. 3. trim the outline 4. fold out the base tabs 5 position and stick a curled length of ribbon or paper as the pig's tail 6. glue the body sections together leaving the tabs facing outwards 7. fold the tabs so that the pig is able to  stand and cover with quantity of glue over the base and stick to a thickness of foam or padding. Cut this to fit Conversation   Introduce how pigs enjoy rooting around trees in search of truffles - a fungi to eat   Use scissors and green drinking straws to create grass and sawdust to add texture to the paint   Identify the paint colours you'll be using to make brown and blend to see the change ..   Role play with the pig stampers     Discuss how we use cream to protect our skin from the hot sun and pigs use mud to cool themselves down and that also protects their skin from sunburn. Compliment everyones paint activities with a 'this little piggy' rhyme & its printables