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Chalk caterpillars

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The arts motivate and engage children in learning, stimulate memory and facilitate understanding, enhance symbolic communication, promote relationships, and provide an avenue for building competence. –  Young Children and the Arts: Making Creative Connections, The Task Force on Children’s Learning and the Arts, 1998 We are playfully following the journey of very hungry caterpillars as they turn into butterflies (read more about how we transformed our caterpillars here). After looking at caterpillars

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Caterpillars and butterflies

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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 and make sense of their world by doing and imagining. Making art lends itself perfectly

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Mixed Media Calendars

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Create postcard-sized Mixed Media paintings, get inspired by the seasons, have an epic, two day Collage Craft Party like we did or collect your children’s mini creations throughout the year to make a calendar! This is my absolute favorite, toddler approved project to experiment with materials and Mixed Media layering techniques! Materials Sharpies Oil pastels or crayons Watercolor paper cut in small rectangles to fit your calendar Art calendar printouts

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Snowflake Mixed Media Collage

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Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.  – Vesta M. Kelly Are you looking for a fun way to recycle your left-over tissue paper snowflakes?  We took our window decorations down and glued the snowflakes onto paper which turned out to be a wonderful, open-ended art activity as well as a good introduction to layering with various

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Christmas Potato Prints

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Potato Printing is one of the most simple, open-ended and playful printing techniques perfect for little hands. You can make anything from Christmas stockings, wrapping paper or wall hangings with this fun printing activity. Materials Small potatoes and a knife Packing paper and cardboard Tempera paint Tray or paper plate Scissors Tissue paper Glue stick Painter’s tape Yarn or wire Beads Step 1: Cut your potatoes Cut a potato in

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Print your own Christmas Stockings

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One can never have enough socks. – J.K. Rowling Are you still looking for a meaningful Christmas activity for you and your family? How about making your own stockings? This is easy to set up and leaves more than enough open-ended possibilities to create and experiment with fun printing techniques. Materials: Stockings (or you can sew your own) Building blocks (or something else to glue foam shapes onto) Foam shapes (or

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Salt Dough Ornaments

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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 themselves and will keep your children engaged for hours! We make Salt Dough Ornaments every

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Thanksgiving Canvas Banner

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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 and tried to remember who helped us with something recently. We also talked about how good it feels to give and receive

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Celebrating Thanksgiving

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It can turn a meal into a fest, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. – Malody Beattie Thanksgiving can be the perfect time to nurture a culture of gratitude, giving and receiving in your family or preschool! One of my favorite teaching memories is the artful Thanksgiving Feast at our preschool: The children

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Pumpkin Decorating

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Are you still looking for a fun and easy, age appropriate, no-carve pumpkin decorating idea that will keep your toddler busy for hours? Look no further! Ever since seeing Meri Cherry’s Pumpkin Party, decorating pumpkins with tinker trays has become a yearly tradition – we seriously love these pumpkins sooo much! Before decorating pumpkins you can start with this fun nursery rhyme: “Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate (hold

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