Children and the love of glue!

I absolutely love doing creative activities with children!

Whilst touring with Silly Samuel Square, I always combine the reading with a fun, colouring sheet of my main characters.

Recently I thought it would be educational for really young children to stick different shapes onto paper, talking about colours, pointy bits and shape names.

I used this activity during a creative morning the other week, with lots of two year olds who loved glue! Unfortunately hardly any went on the paper!
Children literally lick it, try and eat it, put it in their hair, on their clothes, up their nose etc.
I must have said, “Ooh, don’t do that sweetheart", at least a hundred times. The worst thing was they loved putting it on me too, apparently this was hilarious! One child patted my arm, I turned around – Bang! Straight on my nose with glue stick!


We did manage to stick some shapes on paper though and it was a great way of discussing colours.

Afterwards I went to Sainsbury’s to do my weekly shop, feeling satisfied that I’d had a very rewarding morning. Whilst choosing my Cornflakes I noticed a few shoppers smiling and tittering at me. Feeling curious, I went to the toilet and discovered in the mirror that I had a pink triangle and red circle stuck to my bum! Aren’t Kids just great!