Offer familiar tools and varied surfaces for children to explore the marks they can make. These cards offer choices of tools, surfaces and movements, with space for children’s own ideas. Keep the real objects available alongside the pictures.

Offer choices and time to explore

Put out a few compatible choices. Children can choose a card, combine ideas, return to a favourite or ignore the cards. They do not need one card from every group. Dab, drag, roll, press, sweep and swirl are possibilities to explore, not instructions to complete.

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