Creative on Canvas
If I could afford to have every child paint every week on canvas instead of on paper, I would do so. Hey wait a minute! I did do exactly that – except I only had to buy one canvas!
If you haven’t spent much time learning about process art then I just have to say… you are really missing out. Process art is all about inviting young children to explore different art materials, supplies, and processes. Over the years, I have tried all kinds of approaches to art and have landed squarely on process art being the very best approach to inspiring young artists.
Discover all kinds of ways young children can explore art...
Exploring oranges around the classroom
There are so many different ways to explore a color but when you have a fruit that has the color and the color word all built into one, like an
Let’s make a rainbow together!
A fun and creative process that will encourage teamwork in your classroom! Whenever I can find an idea that our whole class can work on together in a successful way,
Map game and drawing in preschool
As we continued our exploration of maps, the children were invited to explore this simple DIY table top map and drawing game. Like with most games I make for the children
More with maps in preschool
We explored a variety of maps in my classroom. The goal of our mapping explorations was simply to compare different kinds of maps and what kinds of things can be
A whole lot of holes!
We discovered that there are a whole lot of holes to be explored all throughout the preschool classroom!
I have hands!
Exploring fingers and hands while the children enjoy the process of making their own handprints!
Catching and popping bubbles
See how I spent a morning in my preschool studio catching bubbles!
Creating with lids in preschool
See more ideas on how to expand the learning in the preschool classroom by inviting the children to create with lids!
The preschool art gallery
Throughout part of our school year, we began saving a few pieces of the children’s artwork so to have a sampling of each child’s work that we could display in
Paper towel shape art for preschoolers
In today’s post, I am sharing an opportunity to explore shapes and color through a very simple and engaging artsy experience.
Framing up the drawing process in preschool
Exploring the drawing process by drawing in a frame in preschool!
Rainbow swirl paint
Exploring the process of blending colors with our simple version of rainbow swirl paint!
Spinning up circles
For our art experience, the children spent time with the amazing process of spinning up circles in our preschool classroom.
Gathering up simple materials for creative art
We are introducing two unique and inexpensive art materials to our class. Perhaps you even have them around your house!
Painting circles with a compass
I don’t know about you, but I am always looking for a new or unique tool for painting for making the process fun and interesting for children. These compasses that
Making circles in the salt tray
Last week I shared our shape hunt activity as an introduction to our unit on shapes. First up on our list of shapes to explore was the circle. We explored
Blue print designs
We recently spent some extra time exploring the color blue and this particular process of making blue print designs ended up being far more engaging to my students than I ever thought it would. I love it when every child in the classroom takes their time exploring a process.