Spark creativity with open ended, fun, and engaging early childhood art experiences!

There are so many ways to invite creativity in the early childhood classroom. Explore the many meaningful, interesting, and creative ideas shared by Teach Preschool on ways you can explore the art experience at home or in your preschool classroom.

Kaleidoscope art (tape rubbings)

Introducing the artful process of tape rubbings as we continue our exploration of kaleidoscopes in preschool.

K is for kaleidoscope designs

Exploring design, shapes, and colors as we explore the book “I See a Song” and the making of our own kaleidoscope designs in preschool!

More fun with fixing

Continuing with our morning of fixing things by fixing plates, knives, forks, spoons, and a few pictures too!

Torn paper strip sticky collage

Before sharing this simple torn paper strip sticky collage with the children, I told them that we needed to work on building stronger hands and fingers and one of the best ways to do that, is by tearing up some paper… To prepare for our paper strip sticky collage, Mrs. Courtney put three strips of [...]

Totally Tubular: Creative expression on a tube

Exploring our own version of tubular painting and drawing as we repurposed tubes and a paper dispenser in our preschool classroom!

Making puffy paint snowmen in preschool

The children in my preschool classroom invested their creative energy into making their own puffy paint snowmen.

Our new white shoes

Having fun reading the delightful children’s book “Pete the Cat” by Eric Litwin and making our own white shoes too!

Which end of the feather is more interesting to paint with?

Which end of the feather is better for painting? Come and see what my class decided!

Ffffff is for fish

Enjoy the book “Blue Sea” by Robert Kalan then have fun painting these beautiful fish in the sea!

Fantastic foil fold-over paintings

Exploring the wonderful process foil fold-over painting in our pre-k class.

Buttons, buttons, and more buttons

Reading “Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons” then we were off to have a little fun of our own with bright and colorful buttons!

Lots and lots of dots

A colorful and simple process to go with the wonderful children’s book “Lots of Dots.”

Feeling the texture of fall

Today, our we used our hands to discover the way the veins on a leaf feels as we created leaf imprints in foil!

More than just a leaf!

Did you know a leaf can be much more than just a leaf? Come and see what our leaves turned out to be!

Pppppp is for pumpkin painting, pouring, pounding, and playdough play

Exploring pumpkins through all kinds of play in our outdoor classroom!

Six unique ways to use scrap wood in preschool

There are so many wonderful ways preschoolers can explore scrap wood. Stop by and see some of the unique ways we are exploring in our classroom!

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