Fun and simple art activity for young children

Things you will need:

White card/paper

Blue, yellow, red, white and black paint

mixing tray and brush

Black pen

Pencil and crayons

Mix together a splodge of blue, yellow and red paint. I tend to start off with roughly equal parts of red and yellow with a slightly smaller amount of blue.

Equal amounts of all three will work too.

From there you can add very small amounts of white, red and yellow to create as many different beautiful skin tones as you can. It's a good chance to play around with the colours and talk about how we all have different skin tones and undertones, even within our families. The children may enjoy trying to match their own skin tone by painting it onto the back of their hands.

Once you have a variety of different skin tones from dark to light, its time to create your scene. Your child may want to draw or collage a setting for their finger paint people. This could be a park, home, school, beach, the shops, the fairground or anywhere they decide.

Very young children may just want to skip straight to finger painting onto the paper without the added step of creating a background scene.

Once you have set the scene, its time to add in your people having fun together. Finger print using all the different skin tone paint you have created onto your scene. Use a black pen to add faces to your finger paint people when dried.

Ta da! A celebration of everyday diversity to help prompt and support conversations.