Sounds like I'm the only plank that decided to let the kids do their Great Fire of London pictures in.....charcoal! Wont be doing that again! :D

lol that was a brave decision and sounds like much fun :D

Wow some lovely wonderful ideas here. I am nickng the lot lol

at work we use a big black builders tray and sprinkle sugar inside, the children love making marks in the sugar!

I used mops with a large floor tray and the back of wallpaper. We took it outside and had great fun. You can use brooms too. Great for gross motor movements but brings in mark making too. You can use toothbrushes, cotton buds too

I've just come across this! Filling up water balloons with paint and throwing them at a big piece of paper laid on the ground outside makes some interesting and very effective splatter paintings :)

these activities are so good defenatly gonna have to try some out!
im planning an activity, the kids are quite looking forward to it just hope it goes ok. the kids are calling it magic painting.

you get the kids to draw random pictures with a thick candle (cheap in most shops) that no-one can see then use watered down paint and paint the whole page and the picture becomes visible.

never planned an activity before does anyone think it will be good to do with 2-5 year olds???? :S

Hey thread painting is also a good idea. Dip a large thread in any of the color. Place it on the paper in any format. Then press it with another paper and pull out the thread between the pages in a tick. You will get many different patterns like this.

The children at our nursery love mark making in shaving foam

Hopscotch design with star pick-up printables and a plaster chalk recipe ideal for a range of mark making activities on a variety of textured surfaces.