Shapes and Colors

The letter of the week in preschool: presenting A and B

September 19, 2010

Each week, we focus on a letter of the week in our two and three year old classes. It isn’t the only time we explore that specific letter but it is a time we give that letter a special introduction and a little special attention. There are many activities to use for creating letters and [...]

We made blueberry pie in preschool

September 15, 2010

Read the book “Blueberries for Sal” by Robert McCloskey and then make a blueberry pie! Our preschoolers started off by gluing some strips of manila paper on top of a brown construction paper pie crust. The children criss-crossed their paper which was a challenging concept for some of the younger children… Other children caught on very easily… [...]

Flour and food color painting in preschool

August 29, 2010

I am always on the look out for different art mediums that the children can explore. The children enjoyed the new texture of this homemade “paint” their teacher mixed up. The teacher mixed up some flour and water in a large bowl until it had a creamy consistency. Each of the children had a large [...]

Folding paper in preschool

August 28, 2010

Folding paper is a great way to help young children work on those fine motor skills as well as a way to give children guides for processes like writing, sorting, and counting. This little one spent time coloring a picture this morning and when she was finished, she decided she wanted to fold it up [...]

A little red, a little orange, a little hand

August 24, 2010

We made tissue paper flowers in preschool

August 21, 2010

Tissue paper is such a wonderful product to work with in preschool. The bright colors that are available lend to wonderful opportunities for exploring art. Each child was given a paper flower shape as their canvas… The children painted the stem and leaves of the flower with green paint. Controlling the flow of paint is [...]

Dry-erase board activities for preschool

August 16, 2010

A dry erase board and dry erase markers lend themselves to some great guided learning activities as well as the opportunity to color and create… Gather your materials… I like these dry erase markers because the eraser is on one end and the marker is at the other end… This is a dry erase sentence [...]

Wordless Wednesdays: Painting with Color

August 4, 2010

Check out these great activities for color! More wordless Wednesday links are here

Making your own paint swatters for preschool

August 1, 2010

I just love all the swatter painting that has been going on out there in preschool blog land and happened to be at school and noticed a teacher that had made her own swatters. My niece and I thought we would make a few of our own swatters. We used foam squares, straws, hole punches, [...]

Natures color wheel in preschool

July 26, 2010

I saw a color wheel at one of our schools recently where the class glued colorful plastic flowers on each section of the color wheel. It got me thinking why not use real flowers? We went on a little nature walk to find flowers and put them in a bag. Wy wasn’t exactly sure why [...]

Graphing and painting with oranges

July 20, 2010

When painting with objects, I always print the word of the object on the paper so the children can see that word as they participate in the activity. In this case the word is Orange. We cut an orange in half and used one of the halves for creating orange prints on our paper. For [...]

Let the sun shine in your preschool classroom

July 19, 2010

I enjoy coming in and observing the different ways each class puts their own spin on making a sun. In this class, the children painted their paper plates with yellow tempera paint mixed with salt to give a little sparkle and texture. After the paint dried, the children turned the plates over and added strips [...]

Preschoolers can make their own lines in preschool

July 18, 2010

Let your preschoolers make their own lines to color inside! Start by giving a child a piece of paper and some crayons…. Then invite the child to draw some lines…. And some shapes….. And then invite the child to color inside the shapes! How important are those lines anyway? The process of creating their own [...]

Ribbon painting in preschool

July 16, 2010

One of the things I love most is to build an entire day around music or even build an entire day around one single preschool song. When I write songs, I am always visualizing the many amazing things that can be done with that song. Today I added the Ribbon Song to my fingerplay blog [...]

Color Wheels

July 15, 2010

The process of making large Group color wheels in preschool.

Time to create in preschool

July 10, 2010

My teacher set the colored tape, black construction paper, scissors, and chalk on the table. All I needed was a little time and the chance to do something all by myself. I concentrated on my work. The tape was sticky and I had to use my hands and my mind to figure out how to [...]

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