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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Pumpkin Pour Painting
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!…
Mixed Media Autumn Wall Hanging
One of our favorite art projects involves salad spinners! Yes, really. Spin painting is a mesmerizing process and lends itself perfectly to color our collection of fall treasures. Plus, it never fails to create stunning pieces of artwork. Seriously, you’ve got to try this! Materials: Tempera paint in squeeze bottles Trays Tarp Salad spinners Glitter…
Leaf Rubbing
Autumn is one of my favorite times of the year to do art projects with children. There is so much to explore! During a month of inspecting leaves we went on a lot of nature walks, learned about the seasons and different shaped leaves and leaf veins (learn more here). One of the projects the…
Earth Day: Litterbug Banner
The child is not a citizen of the future; he is a citizen from the very first moment of life and also the most important citizen because he represents and brings the ‘possible’ […], a bearer, here and now of rights, of values, of culture. It is our historical responsibility not only to affirm this…
Scrape and Squeegee Paintings
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…
Painting Snow
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…
Painting with Watercolors and Droppers
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…
