Category: Art projects and activities
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Pink glasses for everyone!
What color glasses would you wear if you had a choice? We explored light, colors and color mixing with these awesome glasses. Kids had a blast and tried one, two and even six of them at the same time. ‘It is orange!’ cried one. ‘I made it really dark! It’s so dark I don’t even…
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Happy Valentine’s Day
Today we were sitting at our table, eating snack, reading books and talking about Valentine’s day. What it is and what it means for us. I asked the kids how we celebrate it. They looked at me for a while and then said: ‘by loving everyone!’ I love that answer! (Even though I totally did…
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Mailing letters filled with paint
Painting letters V really enjoyed putting together huge letters today. It started slowly. He wanted to paint over some doodles he made on a paper. Then he wanted to paint another piece of paper… and then he experimented. What would happen if I put them on top of each other? This simple inquiry resulted in…
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Fill Me a Bag
What is your favorite ‘get to know you’ activity? I love to do ‘fill me a bag.’ It involves the families, lets the child talk about her favorite things in front of the whole classroom (in a non-intimidating way)… and most kids really enjoy the show and tell aspect as well. I found these great colorful…
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Welcome song
What is your favorite welcome song? One of my new favorites is now Willoughby Wallaby Woo. It always brings a smile to mu face – simple, fun and a good way to start a day, isn’t it?
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Building an Igloo
Would you like to build an igloo? This is just a tiny little provocation that I set up for the kids – to go along with our winter theme. We are exploring ice, snow and polar animals… and since the block area is a big part of our preschool experience, I set up this little…
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Borax Snowflakes
Would you like to make some amazing crystals? It’s much easier than you may think. Here is how to make the snowflake: First cut a pipe cleaner into three pieces and combined them in the middle. Then mix hot water and borax (1 cup of water and 3 tablespoons of borax) and tie the…
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Driftwood Animals
How much doe it take to encourage kids to see extraordinary in the ordinary objects? Usually not more than a couple of words. In this case, it took even less. I just collected some driftwood and brought it into the classroom. I showed the treasures to the kids and let them play with it. Suddenly the…
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Alcohol Ink Birds
Alcohol inks are one of my favorite media for little kids. They are so flexible and fun to use. We have used them to decorate Christmas ornaments, coasters for teachers, plates and candle holders and now we used them to make a colorful collage on our window. I got the idea when I picked up…
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Melting Cups
We decided to bring some color to our windows. I have always wanted to try the melting-cups-into-suncatchers idea. And yesterday we finally decided to give it a try. It was super easy and the results were amazing. We used colorful sharpies to decorate our plastic cups. I read that plastic #6 is the best one…
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