Of all the art and science projects that I have done, lemon and watercolor science has been my #1 fave for YEARS! Let's get started.
Teach your kids the color mixing with this simple and easy color-changing water science experiment. They will be amazed at how the water magically changes color!
Create this 5 minute craft with this kid made chromatography! This is a simple science experiment for your STEM classroom that includes an easy art lesson.
Kids will be WOWED with this hands-on, fall science experiment where they will explore Why do Leaves Change Color for kids! Fun Leaf Activity!
Check out tons of color mixing activities for toddler, preschool, pre-k & kindergarten students. Post includes ideas, activities, & freebies!
Check out tons of color mixing activities for toddler, preschool, pre-k & kindergarten students. Post includes ideas, activities, & freebies!
The Magic Milk Science Experiment is a fun and simple experiment for Kids of all ages. It's an excellent Science idea for preschoolers and Kindergarten as an introduction to learning Chemistry. This color changing milk experiment is guaranteed to become one of your favorite Science activities for kids
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Learn about five different biomes as you color and read key facts about with free printable Biome Coloring Pages for Prek-4th graders.
Fizzy art is a fun process art activity for the kids that requires just a few basic supplies. This colorful STEAM project is low prep and engaging!
After exploring and Learning About the Parts of Leaves we decided to learn about leaf color and chlorophyll with an easy science experiment. I found...
Want to make your own lava lamp? This fun DIY science experiment give you the full step-by-step instructions on how to make a homemade lava lamp out of a water bottle.
Kids will be WOWED with this hands-on, fall science experiment where they will explore Why do Leaves Change Color for kids! Fun Leaf Activity!
Work on number recognition with these Science Color by Code! Free printable preschool number worksheets are a FUN way to learn numbers 1-10!
Try this cool hatching dinosaur eggs science activity for preschoolers with a fizzy baking soda and vinegar reaction. What could be more fun!
Watch the magic of of oil and water painting—where art and science meet! This process art explores matter & mixtures, creating frame-worthy masterpieces.
This elementary art lesson for kids will feature adorable color chameleons while focusing on color theory and the science of chameleons. Grades K-2.
Browse my collection of free environmental science worksheets and printable free learning resources for kids!
With this cool Leaf Chromatography science experiment, kids can see the different pigments found in leaves and answer the question, "Why do leaves change color?" Download a free printable leaf color chart too.
This colorful magnetism poster would be a great addition to your science center during a unit on magnets. Instructions for printing and use Print on A4 paper. This item is part of a set of Magnets resources available in my store.
Watercolour paper, salt and watercolour paint come together to create some incredible results. What makes the best results? That's what you'll need to explore! My clever friend, Asia, from Fun at Home with Kids has been at it again and produced her 2nd fabulous children's book, "The Curious Kid's Science Book." We were thrilled to receive our copy and began pouring over it immediately. The book is set out beautifully with bright, bold imagery, just waiting to entice you and the kids into creating, exploring and experimenting. Whilst specific recipes and experiments will lay out all the step-by-step instructions that you need, I love that much of the book encourages you to actually do the experimenting and exploring yourself, which is so important! We were drawn to the beautiful salt and watercolour exploration and decided it would be our first activity from the book. With this style of activity, we had the material list and a basic idea of what to do. As for an exact method, well, that bit was up to us and required us to actually think about the different ways and amounts of water and salt, in order to achieve different results. It also allowed us to talk about and reflect upon our observations whilst creating and formulate our own conclusions. All very scientific and more interesting than being told exactly what to do to create an exact result. Here's what we came up with. Materials: Squares of watercolour paper, salt, watercolour paint (we used liquid watercolour here), brushes. "Where to start Mum?" "Just go for it! Use the materials, see what happens." Should you put the watercolour/water down first or the salt? My kids discovered the answer to that pretty quickly. What if you use barely any water? Why do you think it doesn't work? What is happening to the salt? My kids remembered the word "absorption" here! Yes, it is absorbing the liquid. Can you use the salt to draw certain colours across your pattern? What colour changes do you see occurring? What is happening? How will they look when they dry? Beautiful! Time to reflect on what gave our favourite results and what method we used to obtain them. The Curious Kid's Science Book. 100+ Creative Hands-on Activities for Ages 4-8, would make a fabulous gift (especially if you combine it with a few goodies required for creating and exploring some of the scientific concepts covered in the book). It's available worldwide and you can get it with free delivery here from the Book Depository. (Or look out quality bookshops near you). Check out the fun we had this awesome activity from Asia's first book, "150+ Screen-Free Activities for Kids." Happy playing, Debs :) Disclosure: I was sent a complimentary copy of this book to review. All thoughts and opinions are, as always, my own. This post contains affiliate links. (Book Depository) Thanks for your support. Look where else we are. Are you following along? :)
Part of the lesson on camouflage is for students to "hide" their creature. I let them choose from butterflies to zebras. I use scrapbook paper or sometimes old wallpaper books. We staple them on our classroom walls for a few weeks, then place them in our science journals. These are 2 examples.
Check out over 25 ideas for color activities for toddlers, preschool, or pre-k students. Find lots of easy ideas, resources, and freebies!
The Fall Preschool Unit is packed full of hands on math & literacy activities as well as no prep worksheets for easy lesson planning.
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Primary colors are one of the first art concepts. Experience olor mixing first hand with this coffee filter crafts that requires only washable markers!
Printable Primary Colors Preschool is a useful resource for parents or teachers who want to teach young children about primary colors. With printable materials, you can easily create engaging activities and worksheets that help children learn and identify these essential colors..
This elementary art lesson for kids will feature adorable color chameleons while focusing on color theory and the science of chameleons. Grades K-2.
Geometric Art
Our theme this week was "Our Five Senses" and we focused on the letter B and the shape circle. We read this week: Ferdinand by Munro Leaf Paddington by Mark Brown Paddington and the Busy Bee Carnival by Mark Brown The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Stellaluna by Janelle Cannon Our question of the week was "What is something that you are really good at?" For our theme of the week, we talked a lot about our senses, what they help us do and why we need them. We made texture collages: This week is full of some of my favorite activities from the year, these texture collages being one of them. I love how each one is different, and the kids are so proud of the texture choices that they make. AND they look amazing on the wall. We tasted sweet, salty and sour things, and the kids had to vote on their favorite taste. (They think it's awesome when they get to eat things as part of a project.) We tested their sense of smells with this project where I asked them to describe the things that they were smelling. I used perfume, shampoo, chocolate syrup, pickle juice, toothpaste and (the most tricky) water. Out on our schools nature trail we talked about the different sounds that we could hear. We did this at various points of our walk, close to the school, by the parking lot and deeper in the woods. Lastly we did another activity with the sense of touch. I set up my table with different texture objects. I used flour, rice, oatmeal, sand and a scrubbing sponge. As the students felt each thing, I asked them to describe what they were feeling. It was hard to get them away from just telling them what the items were and to use describing words, but we got there in the end. For our shape of the week, the kids practiced drawing circles with this cool worksheet of circles and another with squares and circles. We also worked on recognizing circles out of other shapes. We talked a lot about things that are circles. We sang the song "This is a circle, this is a circle. How can you tell? How can you tell? It goes round and round, No end can be found, It's a circle, it's a circle." -Found Here For our letter activities, we used our handwriting sheet for the letter B, the sheet that helps work on letter recognition, both were mentioned in the "All About Me" post. The students also wrote in their journals for the letter B. We turned B's into Bees! After we read Ferdinand we all made our own bees. This was a great way for the kids to practice their cutting skills. I love how each child's bee is different. Another project that we did (another one of my favorites all year) is the Boat Builder activity. I love it because I give the students the materials and the end result is something completely their own. Each child got a piece of white paper, a square of brown paper, a skinny black rectangle, scissors, a glue stick and crayons with the instruction of make me a boat however you want to. (They love when I say that). If I get "I don't know how..." or " I can't do it.." We go back a few steps and talk about boats.. what do they look like, where do we find them, what do they do, and then the creative juices start flowing. Here's the end results! Love it! For our Alphabet wall we made butterflies with coffee filters and water color paint. After the children painted their coffee filters and they dried I used small pipe cleaners to turn them into butterflies! And with the B addition, our wall now looks like... Our list for words beginning with B's was very impressive. Here it is! As a side note, teachers always need to be flexible, and as such, it was in the best interest of the flow of the classroom to switch two centers, the library and dramatic play center. And I'm always telling the kids to make sure that they turn off the water faucet after getting a drink or washing their hands. I tell them to "Save the water for the fishes, so I painted a mural for above the sink to remind them. Up next week: The letter C, Triangles and "Our Feelings".
A fun, processed based Fibonacci art project for kids. Great for S.T.E.A.M. learning at home or at school.
Integrate math and art with these symmetrical pattern coloring cards. This is a great math art project that kids love doing!
Please Note: All images seen below are of my students artwork only. These photos/lessons are not posted in any particular order regarding the flow of my curriculum. Abstract Self-Portrait Paintin…
COLORING BOOKS Seasons Coloring Book Let’s have fun and learn the seasons by coloring. The book includes 12 pages. Description The content of the book is scientifically designed especially for preschool and nursery children .. It is more suitable for children between the ages of 2 and 6 years old .. It helps them to […]
Make a rainbow paper craft that changes colors as the paper is tipped back and forth in sunlight! Create gorgeous rainbow patterns and designs while teaching children the basics of thin film interference. Add this rainbow paper experiment to your list of simple experiments for kids and creative art and STEAM projects!
Albrecht Dürer [German painter, printmaker, mathematician, engraver, and theorist, 1471–1528] ‘Hare’ 1502 Watercolor and gouache, heightened with white gouache 25 x 22.5 cm Albertina - Graphic Arts Collection, Vienna, Austria. The Albertina's collection of Durer's works: gallery.albertina.at/eMuseum/code/eMuseum.asp?newaction=a... 460 ___ Many thanks to arthistory390 for his generous permission to use this superb image: flic.kr/p/aNSQKH
Science experiments for kids are big in our home. My kids love them—and so do I. While teaching Kindergarten, I made science experiments a priority. Kids are so naturally curious about the world around them, and science experiments bring this learning fully to life! This is my ABSOLUTE favorite science experiment of all time—oh yes,
