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Autumn Shadow Boxes

August 26, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

Collecting and creating art with pieces of nature encourages us to observe the changing seasons and engages our senses. During nature walks the children like to collect leaves, pinecones, sticks and small rocks etc. We talk about the different colors, shapes and textures: “Some of the pinecones are spiky!”, “The wood is so soft!” etc. …

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Filed Under: Mixed Media Tagged With: Ages 3+, Droppers, Fall Art, Invitation to Create, Kindergarten Art, Liquid Watercolors, Loose Parts, Nature Art, Preschool Art, Process Art, Toddler Art

Mother’s Day Perfume

May 2, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty Why make perfume? Do your children love playing with water and anything else that involves pouring, scooping, dripping and stirring? Perfume making provides some great sensory and fine motor opportunities. When stirring their concoctions children get…

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Filed Under: Mixed Media Tagged With: Ages 3+, Droppers, Invitation to Create, Liquid Watercolors, Mother's Day, Preschool Art, Process Art, Sharpies, Squeeze bottles, Toddler Art, Valentines

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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Painting with Watercolors and Droppers

February 15, 2018 by Claudia Brauer

One of my favorite art activities for preschoolers is watercolor painting on paper towels and felt. Young children find it absolutely mesmerizing to watch the colors mix and love squeezing and dripping the paint with the droppers. It’s a fun and playful way to teach about colors, to develop those fine motor skills and practice…

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  • „What is love and how can we show love 💕?”
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„Love is… when you give people your favorite dresses.”
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  • Squeeze, poke, squish and knead while playfully strengthening those muscles that are later used to hold a pencil and write. Thanks for the Snowman Factory @buggyandbuddy! ⛄️❄️
  • “What children learn does not follow as an automatic result from what is taught, rather, it is in large part due to the children’s own doing, as a consequence of their activities and our resources.” — Loris Malaguzzi, The Hundred Languages of Children.
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Do we teach according to how children learn? Do we trust children to be their own guides and allow them to choose the experiences they are most interested in? Do we keep our environment responsive and flexible?
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Making calendars the 3-year old children were mainly interested in cutting with the scissors ✂️ , using the the paper craft punches and layering different shapes while almost all of the 4-5 year old children engaged in symbolic drawing ✍️ inspired by the seasons.
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More details and full DIY instructions on the blog (link in profile) ♡.
  • Create postcard-sized Mixed Media paintings to make calendars 📆 ! Though the concept of time is still way too abstract for young children to understand, we can invite them to use their imaginations to create pictures and/or use colors that might remind them of spring 🌷, summer ☀️, autumn 🍂 and winter ☃️. Start creating to one season, imagine the weather and what you like doing during that season. See what happens and what experiences the children will choose, e.g. they might just arrange the collage materials or maybe they will draw really detailed scenes inspired by each season etc. Find all the details and full DIY instructions on the blog (link in profile) ♡!
  • All 🙌🏻 on deck during our epic craft party to experiment with layering techniques and Mixed Media... Guess what we’ve been working on ♡!
  • We took our window decorations down and glued the snowflakes ❄️❄️❄️onto mat board which turned out to be a wonderful, open-ended art activity as well as a good introduction to layering with various materials. Find all the details and full DIY instructions on the blog (link in profile) ♡.

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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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