Preschoolers use recycled and repurposed materials to make a 3-dimensional recycled collage using glue, paint, dyed rice, yarn and pom-poms.
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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".
Funnel painting process art for kids
You would not believe all of the treasures I have been finding lately. I am currently packing my house to move which means you uncover everything you forgot you had. While I have been spending some of my time daydreaming about redesigning my living room into a chic West Elm…
This school year I will be out on an extended maternity leave. While I am so excited to get to stay home with my babies, I'm definitely going to miss my classroom! Setting up my art room in the beginning of the year is something I always look forward to. Freshly painted tables and stools, sparkling'ish clean floors, new bulletin board borders, bright new posters to hang - I LOVE it all so much! Normally I start off each school year with a post showing how I set up my art room and my plans for classroom management, but this year is going to be a little different. Instead I'm going to show you some pictures of things that worked great in previous years, and what exciting new creations I've been working on for the art room! Visual Art Word Wall These Visual Art Word Wall cards are the perfect way to get your kids to learn art vocabulary AND a great way to show your administration how you can incorporate literacy into your art room! Every year I hang these up along the back wall in my classroom, that way when my students are lined up waiting for their teacher, they have an opportunity to peruse my wall. This summer I've made some exciting new updates to my word wall cards! The vocab words are now much bolder and the card set with definitions included is significantly easier to read from afar. Elements and Principles Posters and Strips Another item I like to hang on the back wall of my classroom is my Elements of Art and Principles of Design Poster set. Putting these posters next to where my kids line up at the end of class gives them yet another opportunity to become more familiar with the elements and principles. The package that I sell in my TPT store has these posters sized to 8.5"x11" or 18"x24", but the ones I have in my classroom I just scaled down in my print settings to print at 13"x18". This summer I've been working on a new set of simplified Elements and Principles poster strips. These poster strips print 2 to a page and are about 3.5"x9.5" each. The great thing about these new poster strips is that they are really bold and easy to read from a distance. That makes them great for hanging above bulletin boards or white boards or wherever else you may have space to put them! Each card features the name of the element or principle and a colorful background that reflects the meaning of the word (similar to my visual art word wall cards). Art Supply Labels You know who likes an unorganized art room? Not me! I am like the queen of organization.. so the fact that my art room went six years without having my supplies labeled absolutely blows my mind! I created these Art Supply Labels with the intention of not only labeling the outside of my plastic storage bins, but the outside of my cabinet doors as well (that way I'd know exactly where everything was AND so would my students)! Having my cabinets labeled would be a great way to have my students retrieve supplies for their tables AND help me save valuable instructional time! Because as art teachers we have TONS of different materials and supplies in our rooms, I came up with a list of 200 common art and classroom supplies and made labels for each of them. In my package I also included a blank template with both written and video directions to help teachers make custom labels (just in case they were missing something). Color Mixing Posters Years ago I painted a posterboard-sized set of color mixing posters to hang in my classroom to help my students learn about primary, secondary, and intermediate/tertiary colors. As time went on however, I realized that I needed more than one set in my classroom (I wanted it easy for all my students to be able to see). So eventually I created a digital version of my color mixing posters. The best part of having these posters up in my classroom was that all my students were able to easily refer to them if they forgot how to mix a specific color (this especially came in handy with my kinders). Art Genre Cards Learning to classify artwork into genres is a great skill to teach your students - especially if that just so happens to be something that you're expected to cover for your SLO testing! To help my students remember the possible categories, I created these Art Genre Cards! In previous years I've hung them directly above my whiteboard/projector screen, so when I'm presenting a new artist or piece of artwork to my students, I can have them quickly categorize the piece of art. So for example, if I had van Gogh's "Starry Night" projected on my board, my students would be able to deduce that the painting is either a landscape or cityscape (would make for an interesting debate) and is also a piece of abstract art. Art Movement Cards Trying to incorporate some more art history into your lessons? Or even better - are you a high school art teacher? These Modern Art Movement cards are a perfect way to introduce your students to 33 modern art movements! I've created two different versions of this set; a simplified set that contains the visuals, the art movement name, and the active years of the movement, and then a more complex set that also includes a brief description of the movement and some of the most active artists in the movement. Modern Art Artist Cards My Modern Art Movement Artist card set matches perfectly with my Art Movement cards! There are so many different things you could do with these. You could post them on a bulletin board to make an artist "word wall," hang them up to display information about a featured artist for a lesson, use them as headers for an artist of the week bulletin board, or even make an artist timeline to help your students visually see how artists may have influenced each other's work! Each card features a photograph or painting of the artist him/herself, an enlarged example of their work in the background, their name, years lived, and the art movement(s) they were most associated with. Best part of this package? There are over 200 artists included! Crayon Color Poster Cards I'm pretty excited about these new Crayon Color Poster Cards that I made because they are so stinking cute AND they come in ALL the colors! Anytime I buy color posters for my classroom they only include the basic 9 colors, so finally I created my own! This set includes yellow, yellow-orange, orange, red-orange, red, red-violet, violet (& purple), blue-violet, blue, blue-green, green, yellow-green, white, gray, black, brown, pink! It also comes with a variety of color scheme headers and other add-ons to help arrange them however you'd like! They are seriously so adorable! BONUS: They also come with a blank template so you can create your own labels with them! Color Mixing Poster Cards This package is similar to my crayon cards in that they display ALL the colors (tertiaries included) - but this Color Mixing Poster Card set ALSO includes a visual in the corner showing what colors you would need to mix together to create the featured color! This set is a great way to help students learn color names, how to categorize them, and how to create them in a variety of mediums! *Package includes the colors: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green, green. blue-green, blue, blue-violet, violet (and optional purple substitute), red-violet, pink, brown, gray, white, and black. (White and black not shown in preview below.) Descriptive Shades of Color Posters Want your students to start speaking more descriptively about color (or at least more so then like light blue or dark blue)? Yep - so do I. That's why I created these Descriptive Shades of Color Posters. I have two different versions of this item to suit differing decor tastes and both versions come with 9 color posters (either full page or half page) and two possible title posters. One of the title posters reads "The Many Shades of Color," while the other reads "Variety of Color." Why you ask? While varying colors of a single hue are often referred to as "shades" of a color, they technically aren't all. This becomes especially confusing for our youngest learners who learn about shades in the context of tints and shades - so a color + black. You can bypass that confusion by just using the "Variety of Color" title card. :) Interested in any of my art room decor creations? Be sure to check out my Teachers Pay Teachers store or even better - my Shopify store.
Our silhouette mural is finished! It went pretty quickly once we got started. Each of the figures represents different subject areas at school. Students in grades 4-6 did most of the painting and I had some students in 7-8 grade do touch-ups, edging and fine details. I made a video slideshow of the steps we made to paint the mural to show for the whole school. The school presentation has lots of photos of students in it. I made … Read more... →
A fun, processed based Fibonacci art project for kids. Great for S.T.E.A.M. learning at home or at school.
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Top 10 Henri Matisse Projects for Kids - Art projects for elementary school. Paper collage, art appreciation& other projects to explore with kids
These process art ideas are perfect to use in the preschool classroom or at home. There's one for every letter of the alphabet!
Kids will love this cool process art technique using liquid watercolor paint and plastic wrap. Not only is it super fun to do, but the finished project ends up with a neat textured look! Follow our Art for Kids Pinterest board! We love creating interesting papers using fun and unique art techniques (like our crumpled art …
50 Easy Process Art Activities for Kids
Use the beautiful colors of fall and natural materials for creative fall process art that kids will love making!
While I love making crafts with my preschooler, sometimes it's just nice doing process art activities with him. We don't worry about the results. We just dig in, throw everything into the pot, and see what comes up. It's kind of freeing really to not worry about the product. Awhile back we made some rainy day process art, tissue paper canvas art and Matisse murals together. Since we really enjoyed those activities, this time I pulled out our aluminum foil and we tried our hand at making some shiny foil process art. SHINY FOIL PROCESS ART This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! Here are the materials we used: tissue paper glitter glitter pens feathers plain white glue paint brushes masking tape 1. First, I covered our work space. 2. Then, I taped a sheet of aluminum foil onto the table. (Just realized something- wouldn't this look cool as a mural? I think that would be a great collaborative project for a whole bunch of kids!) 3. Then, we tore up different colored tissue paper bits. 4. . Then, we made our glue mixture by mixing equal parts glue and water in an old container. (At first we just poured glue onto the aluminum foil, but it was way too thick and I felt like we were just wasting a whole bunch.) It was much better to use the paint brushes to "paint" the glue on. 5. We "painted" our tissue paper pieces on. As the tissue paper got really wet, the colors started mixing. That was really cool to see. 6. Once we finished with the tissue paper we used our glitter pens, glitter, and feathers to add extra special touches. They dried overnight and then we had some lovely, shiny art! Here are other super easy, open-ended art projects for little kids! edible art fizzy ice painting sweet mosaics easy abstract art exploring art materials like scientists aluminum foil stained glass Let's keep in Contact! You can always find fun ideas on my Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter accounts! (Or subscribe to my email mailing list by filling out the pink bar at the top of your screen.) Happy creating, friends!
This easy mono printing art project for children is so fun to try. Find out how to make your own DIY stamps and try this beginners printing project to create your own work of art. Easy mono printing art project for children Mono printing is a type of printing where your print can only be […]
Watch the magic of of oil and water painting—where art and science meet! This process art explores matter & mixtures, creating frame-worthy masterpieces.
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This paper strip process art project is easy to set up and reinforces important preschool skills. And the little artists love it!
Create easy Kandinsky art for kids using chalk pastels and glue! Learn an easy glue resist technique that kids will love!
30 fall process art activities the kids are going to love! You'll find fall art using natural materials, as well as other fun, engaging autumn art projects.
Here is a fun printmaking project inspired by artist Paul Klee and his painting Castle and Sun. Do your kids watch Little Einsteins? My little girl loves them and was watching them the other day. If you do watch them, you know that they feature an artist and a composer each episode. Paul Klee was […]
Inspire creativity and fun with these engaging process art projects for kids! The ultimate list of art activites for kids to explore and create.
Turn crumpled pieces of paper into colorful artwork in this fun art project for kids. This easy art activity is inspired by the children’s book, Ish, by Peter H. Reynolds! The colorful paper has such a cool texture when finished and can be used for making collages or writing notes! (This post contains affiliate links.) …
This preschool painting activity is like science at the art table!
When I found this project, I immediately went on a search around my home for a plain white anything I could try this with! Such a fun project to do with the family or even with a larger group of ki…
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Children can fingerpaint a gorgeous Polar Bear Process Art project using this easy technique. The finished product is stunning!
TISSUE PAPER PRINTING - A bright and vibrant process art for kids. Have you tried it before? You'll love how colourful and fun this kids painting idea is!
This easy mono printing art project for children is so fun to try. Find out how to make your own DIY stamps and try this beginners printing project to create your own work of art. Easy mono printing art project for children Mono printing is a type of printing where your print can only be […]
Gorgeous multi-stage process art for kids of all ages!
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Splatter Paint is a fun process art for kids. Using rainbow colored paints and pipettes you can create a rainbow paint splatter art project for kids.
Create some beautiful art work with kids, inspired by the great Van Gogh, using just paint, fingers and paper! Easy, child-centred, open-ended and stunning! We’ve been inspired by the great artist Vincent Van Gogh for our latest Kids Get Arty project! The children had a look at The Starry Night in our art books and...Read More »
This easy mono printing art project for children is so fun to try. Find out how to make your own DIY stamps and try this beginners printing project to create your own work of art. Easy mono printing art project for children Mono printing is a type of printing where your print can only be […]
