Creative Art

Simple seed mosaics

March 26, 2012

Simple seed mosaics for preschoolers to make!

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Handprint flower fun

March 25, 2012

Handprints are always more fun when we get to paint our own hands in preschool!

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Springtime easel starters

March 24, 2012

Using easel starters, our prekindergarten age children created paintings to show the growth from seed to flower!

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The 4 R’s: reading, writing, arithmetic, and rainbows

March 14, 2012

Exploring the “4 R’s” in our preschool classroom as we had fun with rainbow reading, rainbow writing, and rainbow arithmetic!

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Cooking up rainbow toast

March 13, 2012

Exploring rainbow paint as we made rainbow toast and rainbow pictures! You can see the live version on Fox News too!

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Painting a rainbow of flowers : Lois Ehlert style

March 12, 2012

Creating Lois Ehlert style bouquets in our preschool classroom today. A great opportunity to explore the illustrations from the books we love!

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Spaghetti sensory play

March 11, 2012

Exploring spaghetti in our preschool classroom turns into a wonderful exploration in texture and color!

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Building with blocks on the sticky easel

March 9, 2012

A wonderful exploration in block building only this time we used the easel as our platform for block play. Super cool idea taught to me by one of my students!

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Rainbow colors on the sticky easel

March 8, 2012

Change up your easel and make it a sticky easel with this simple idea. Today – we had a rainbow sticky easel!

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Paper rainbows and the ten second rule

March 7, 2012

We used the 10 second rule to help us make our paper strip rainbows today!

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Weaving up a little sunshine and a blog hop

March 6, 2012

Our preschoolers are hoping to bring in some sunshine with this simple sunshine weaving! Come on over and join in on the weather blog hop!

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Rainbow sponge painting

March 4, 2012

A wonderful exploration in sponge painted rainbow art!

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Weather word wall art in PreK!

March 4, 2012

Talking about the weather with young children during the month of March!

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This is what happens when you give a set of stickers to a set of kids

March 2, 2012

Making the rounds in social networking has been this wonderful post titled, “This is What Happens when you Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids.” from Colossal. This post shares the wonderful artwork called, “The Obliteration Room.” If you haven’t taken a look at their sticker dot covered white room yet, it is worth [...]

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Exploring feet with Dr. Seuss

March 1, 2012

Reading Dr. Seuss “The Foot Book” then using our feet for painting in preschool!

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Paper quilting in preschool

February 23, 2012

Exploring the beautiful texture and color of quilts and some paper quilting in our preschool classroom!

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