Today we have been printing stars as part of our series of activities linked to Oliver Jeffers’ book How To Catch A Star.

This year is the 10th anniversary of this touching tale of a boy who loves stars and tries to catch one of his very own.

We love stars in our house.

Esther’s name means star and Baby Tilda, Matilda Mae, is our star of the sea.

Today’s activity was really quick and simple to set up but was incredibly effective. We have made some wonderful abstract art for our walls that we are all really pleased with.

So what did we do?

I chose four colours of paint.

Purple, Gold, Blue and Red.

I mixed each paint with a generous sprinkling of glitter.

This gave each printed star a certain magical sparkle.

We then used a mix of metal and plastic cookie cutters as printers.

We dipped them in the paint and stamped them on the page.

We had great fun trying out different ways of using the stars.

We overlapped stars, lined them up horizontally and vertically, we tried to make trees of stars and shooting stars.

We printed and stamped and painted and splashed.

It was great fun.

And here are some of our celestial results.

We were sent one copy of this 10th Anniversary Edition of How To Catch a Star to review