Totally Tubular: Creative expression on a tube

I recently had a parent donate a paper roll dispenser to my class and so we have been having some fun exploring different ways we can use our paper roll dispenser, besides just dispensing paper.  Over the past few weeks we have been going totally tubular and placing different sizes of tubes on our dispenser for a little creative expression through painting, drawing and writing…

Totally Tubular by Teach Preschool

For painting, we put two of our tube blocks on the paper roll dispenser and set out some paint for the children to explore. The children enjoyed painting all around the tubes and turning the tubes as they went along….

Totally Tubular by Teach Preschool

Because there were two tubes and two sets of paints, most of the children explored the totally tubular center with a friend.  What a great way to promote creativity, conversation, and collaboration!..

Totally Tubular by Teach Preschool

And as a reminder, you can read more about the tubes that we are painting on in my previous post titled, “Building and playing with our free tube blocks and where you can find them too“…

Totally Tubular by Teach Preschool

Not only did we do a little tube painting, but we also tried a little tube drawing only for the drawing tube, we used an oatmeal container covered with paper…

Totally Tubular by Teach Preschool

The oatmeal tube gave our students a larger canvas to work with.  As each child finished drawing, we either removed the paper and added a new one to the oatmeal container or we covered the drawing with a new sheet of paper or we left it and others would come and add to the drawing that was already there.  We let the children tell us what they preferred to do as we went along throughout the day…

Totally Tubular by Teach Preschool

Some of the children preferred to work alone on the drawing tube and others preferred to draw with a friend…

Totally Tubular by Teach Preschool

Instead of changing the tube, this time we kept the oatmeal container and changed out the paper from white drawing paper to black construction paper…

Totally Tubular by Teach Preschool

The children used white chalk to draw on the black construction paper…

Totally Tubular by Teach Preschool

No question that the tubular painting was the biggest favorite of the children overall but each new tube, process, and writing tool has provided its own type of interesting experience along the way…

Totally Tubular by Teach Preschool

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Deborah J Stewart

Deborah J Stewart

Every time I think I know everything I need to know about teaching young children, God says, "Hold on a minute!" and gives me a new challenge.

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