Discover all kinds of ways young children can explore art...
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.
Making our mark in the snow
We are always looking for new and interesting ways to explore snow in our classroom. This one really hits the mark!
Exploring and designing stained glass art
Our Pre-kindergarten age children designed their own stained glass artwork using tape and paint!
Stained glass easel starter
Exploring the concept of stained glass through this simple easel starter in our preschool classroom.
Making our own very busy spiders and spider webs
Spiders are quite common around our preschool and so we spent a little time reading about and making our own very busy spiders.
Dinosaurs: Fun Friday features
Today I’m sharing a few of my favorite posts that were linked up to our Discover and Explore dinosaur linky party. We had so many
Exploring all kinds of shapes with salt box drawing
To promote time with shape recognition and drawing, I transferred our salt into to boxes that come in different shapes.
Dinosaur land in the sand table
We spent a week exploring dinosaurs all through out our centers. As part of the children’s exploration of dinosaurs, they spent lots of time playing in our dinosaur land which was located right inside our sand table…
Designing with dominoes
Previously, I shared with you a couple of our domino math activities so today, I am sharing the creative side of playing with dominoes.
I can see: drawing the five senses
Exploring the five senses with this simple googly eyed drawing activity in preschool.
Apple tree scrunch art
We spent some time exploring and tasting real apples in my classroom and of course, we just had to make an apple tree. Our apple tree may seem a little abstract but the process was fun and interesting and achievable by new little ones.
Water color wheels
To give our students time to explore the process of mixing colors and a color wheel, we invited our students to explore water color mixing on a paper towel!
A lesson in color mixing
All through out the year, I give my students lots of opportunities for exploring concepts such as color mixing but along with the freedom to explore, I will often take the time to sit down with my students and walk through a concept. This lesson in color mixing is an example of such a time…
Squeeze art: a beginner’s exploration of the world of art
A beginning exploration in the world of art with this fun and very open ended form of squeeze art.
More than just a strawberry
Come and see why real life experiences are an important part of the learning experience both at home and in the preschool classroom!
Beautiful butterfly fold-overs
Our children love to create fold-over paintings. So it was no surprise that they all really enjoyed making these beautiful butterfly fold-overs to decorate our classroom.