All that's required is some black paper and oil pastels. Of course, you can use whatever colour paper you like, but black is a great foil for bright colours
. I located my oil pastels, covered the coffee table in newspaper and let Eden knock herself out. It actually occupied her for over an hour, and she kept telling me "it's ok Mummy, you can go now" (!) so it turned out to be a great activity for her to do with minimal supervision. If you plan on trying this out with your littlies, make sure they're wearing old clothes or a smock, - you'd be surprised where the oil pastels end up. Eden had smudges on her neck and under the coffee table!
A variation of this activity which I have yet to try, is to use the oil pastels on white paper, then getting Eden to do a wash with some watercolours over the top. I think either variation could result in some wonderful pictures to use for making cards. ~ L.
