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Caterpillars and butterflies

April 30, 2019 by Claudia Brauer

I believe most children can identify with the helpless, small, insignificant caterpillar, and they rejoice with it when it turns into a beautiful butterfly. It is an affirmation to all children. It says: I too can grow up. I too can unfold my wings and fly into the world.  – Eric Carle Young children learn…

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Filed Under: Mixed Media, Painting Tagged With: Ages 3+, Cardboard, Invitation to Create, Kindergarten Art, Painting, Preschool Art, Process Art, Spring, Toddler Art

Salt Dough Ornaments

December 15, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. ― Peg Bracken Salt Dough Ornaments make adorable little gifts! Younger children will enjoy manipulating the dough and relish the sensory feedback they are getting, especially from their tactile sense! Squishing, rolling and cutting the dough are fun activities by…

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Filed Under: Mixed Media, Painting Tagged With: Ages 2+, Christmas, Invitation to Create, Kindergarten Art, Painting, Preschool Art, Process Art, Salt Dough, Tempera paint, Toddler Art

Thanksgiving Canvas Banner

November 20, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. – William Arthur Ward For Thanksgiving we focused on themes of sharing and caring, community and compassion for each other. We practiced saying ‘thank you’, discussed how we can make each other feel good, tried to remember who helped us with…

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Filed Under: Painting Tagged With: Ages 3+, Canvas, Kindergarten Art, Liquid Watercolors, Painting, Preschool Art, Process Art, Toddler Art

Halloween Games and Activities

October 25, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

We always have much fun celebrating Halloween! Here are some of my favorite activities and games you can use with your preschoolers and kindergarteners. Face Painting Face Painting never fails to excite children, especially when they get to paint their own faces! We had much fun celebrating our strengths and special powers of who we…

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Filed Under: Mixed Media, Painting Tagged With: Ages 3+, Group project, Halloween, Invitation to Create, Kindergarten Art, Loose Parts, Preschool Art, Process Art, Toddler Art

Pumpkin Pour Painting

October 20, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

It’s pumpkin time! October is an exciting time of the year: Sweater weather, all things Halloween, songs about wind and pumpkins and lots of talk about costumes and candy. And more than enough reasons to try Pumpkin Pour Painting if you’re looking for a fun, easy, open-ended and really engaging pumpkin project for your children!…

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Filed Under: Mixed Media, Painting Tagged With: Ages 2+, Fall Art, Group project, Halloween, Invitation to Create, Kindergarten Art, Nature Art, Painting, Preschool Art, Process Art, Tempera paint, Toddler Art

Leaf Banners

August 26, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

After observing and talking about the changes outside in nature and reading various books about autumn, the children started to notice how many different leaves there are and wondered more about leaf veins and why leaves fall off the trees. Their thoughts and questions about autumn are constantly present while playing and creating. Through art projects…

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Filed Under: Mixed Media, Painting Tagged With: Ages 3+, Fall Art, Kindergarten Art, Liquid Watercolors, Nature Art, Preschool Art, Process Art, Sharpies, Toddler Art

Tape Resist Flowers

July 28, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. – Hans Christian Andersen Tape-resist is a simple and fun process art technique for young children. You can create any design, make open-ended abstract masterpieces or create to a topic like we did. Materials: Watercolor Paper Painter’s Tape Liquid watercolors Thick paintbrushes…

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Mother’s Day Banner

May 13, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

Some of my favorite art projects for young children include canvas fabric and liquid watercolors. There’s something magical about watching the watercolors bleed into the canvas and children are usually mesmerized by how beautifully the colors mix. Ever since seeing Meri Cherry’s lovely Mother’s Day Banners (head over to her website to see how they’ve…

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Filed Under: Mixed Media, Painting Tagged With: Ages 3+, Canvas, Kindergarten Art, Liquid Watercolors, Mother's Day, Painting, Preschool Art, Process Art, Sharpies, Toddler Art, Tracing, Valentines

Scrape and Squeegee Paintings

March 6, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

Scrape and squeegee paintings are wonderful art activites. As toddler’s are growing and searching for new experiences, they really like exploring a wide range of materials which is the perfect time to introduce squeegees, brayers, rulers, squeezing paint, and mixing colors. Art projects like this will support your toddler’s growing independence while also lending themselves…

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Painting Snow

February 28, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

A high fun, low cost toddler activity for the winter is playing and painting with snow. This is guaranteed to hold your toddler’s attention span and will keep your children engaged for hours. Yes, seriously! Materials Snow Kitchen utensils (trays, scoops, spoons, pans etc.) Optional: Large storage container filled with snow (or better: your summer…

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  • “The arts motivate and engage children in learning, stimulate memory, facilitate understanding and provide an avenue for building competence.” –  Young Children and the Arts: Making Creative Connections.
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After looking at caterpillars more closely (outside and through various books like “It’s a caterpillar” by Elisa Peters), the children noticed that caterpillars have many different features. To encourage further observations we created our own caterpillar drawings and had much fun with printing and color mixing using chalk pastels.
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Many questions and much learning ensued: “Why do some caterpillars have soft hairs? Why do some caterpillars have stripes? Do caterpillars have eyes? Do they have teeth to chew on the leaves? Why do they need spikes?”.
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More details and ideas on the blog (link in profile) 🐛❤️.
  • Encouraging closer observation while adding different details and features to our caterpillar drawings. More details on the blog (link in profile) 🐛.
  • We are experimenting with drawing, printmaking and chalk pastels as we are learning about caterpillars and are looking closely at their different features 🐛. Find all the details on the blog (link in profile) ♡.
  • We ❤️ printing.
  • Our bunnies love all the bright spring colors 🌸🌱🌼🌿🐇. After reading the wonderful book “Quiet Bunny’s Many Colors” by Lisa Mc Cue we colored our own bunnies with liquid watercolors, sharpies, paintbrushes and droppers. Happy Easter 🐰🐣!!!
  • Following “Quiet Bunny’s Many Colors” by Lisa Mc Cue with @craftymothering inspired spin art bunnies 🐰❤️!
  • Storytime based on the wonderful book “Quiet Bunny’s Many Colors” by Lisa Mc Cue: 
Bunny loves all the bright spring colors and searches for creative ways to color it’s own winter fur. Of course we’ll join the fun with bunny coloring activities 🐰🐇🌈!

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Hello, I'm Claudia Brauer: arts educator, hobby artist, art therapist and special education therapist, based in Ridgway, Colorado. I’m excited to bring art enrichment to your home and hope to inspire other educators and parents to nurture childhood creativity through the arts.

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