Category Archives: Arts and Crafts

Painting with Balls

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Painting with Balls

This project was done in early Spring 2014.  The long winter had us creating many art works.  The children were given some paint on paper in a basket, and then a ball to shake in the basket.

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Add the balls and have fun shaking the basket.

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He was very intrigued by the change in colors.

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We repeated each step for all the children.

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She was very happy with what she saw. Each child produced a different art work.

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This was a fun project that had us discussing blending colors.

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The final products 🙂

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These paintings had to lay flat to dry.  I did this to prevent the paint from running because it was still wet (watery).  The children were happy with their work of art – so was I.

This project encourage the children’s creativity because the shaking of the balls in a particular motion yielded different patterns and colors. They utilized their problem solving skills to figure the patterns and blended colors. Their fine motor skills were also utilized when they held the basket. Fun Fun Fun 🙂

 

 

 

 

Clothespin – Helps Fine Motor Development

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Toddlers and preschoolers alike are often independent in nature wanting to accomplish many tasks with little or no help.  In our daycare we allow children to explore, discover and learn about their environment in many ways.

Here we have a toddler learning how to pin the clothespin.  You may ask why?  The clothespin is helping her learn skills that will further enhance zipping, buttoning,  and other activities for managing her body.  It also teaches her to become gradually sufficient with drawing, painting and writing skills.

All stocked and ready to be moved around

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Notice her finger placement

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She is using both hands to help open the pin.  With continued practice she will be able to do this with one hand.

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She is already improving and using one hand

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She is still learning mastery but notice she is holding more pins in her hand while placing a pin on the paper.

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Fine motor skills help young children to string beads, tie shoe laces, put together puzzles, cut and paste and build creative arts.

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Painted Snowman

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Preschoolers having fun painting the snowman with the colors of the rainbow. Earlier that day each child painted a rainbow because our theme of the week was, ‘The Itsy Bitsy Spider’.

The colors of the rainbow …thanks Miss Fareeda 🙂

ROYGBIV – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo,Violet –

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Let the fun begin

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All the children got their painted brush and had fun making art

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the other side

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a closer look – even his carrot nose got a dose of paint:)

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Painting Earth

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During our exploration of the seven continents the children were asked to paint earth using cotton balls.

See how creative there are

Circles were pre-drawn for them …

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The were given paint in sequence

here they are using the white paint first

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green paint is added

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coloring inside the lines

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here comes yellow

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We then added the globe for visual appeal

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their masterpiece emerges

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very creative…I can not show the final work as their names were already affixed to their final impression of earth…but, as you can see they did a great job

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Makeup class given to one child

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Everyone did a great job and as usual the project was a lot of fun for them