Tag: art project
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Mixing our Primary Colors
I like opening the school year with this simple open-ended art project. We talk about primary colors – what they are how they can make other colors (but you cannot really make these by mixing any other ones). Kids love guessing the colors they will make. They know yellow and red make orange, red and […]
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Weaving Project
What do you do with a leftover rain gutter mesh and tagging tape? You use it to weave these awesome kites/wind chimes/paintings (as they were called by the kids). We love upcycling whatever we can use. We use paper toilet rolls for printing circles when we learn about shapes. We use bottle caps for wheels […]
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Working Together
One of my favorite artists to introduce to the kids is Henri Matisse. They always love the fact that he ‘painted with scissors,’ they usually want to dip the scissors to paint and do it as well 😉 and they really enjoy doing the paper collages. This time, we decided to work together to create […]
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Beautiful fall leaves
Fall in Sammamish can be pretty beautiful. We have been admiring the beautiful fall leaves for the past couple of weeks. Kids have been asking questions about the leaves, commenting on the amazing colors, and every day they have been looking for the smallest and largest leaves from our huge maple tree behind the preschool. […]
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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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O’Keeffe and Flowers
Painting flowers with Georgia O’Keeffe is always a big hit. We bring real flowers to the classroom. Kids choose the one that they like the most and explore it with magnifying glass to see all the little details. We talk about Georgia O’Keeffe and how she wanted people to notice flowers-and that is why she […]
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