Sunday, February 10, 2013

Easel Painting

 

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E- Enhances motor skills.

 

A- Ask open ended questions.

 
S- Soothing Sensory experience for children.

 
E- Explore, Experience various art mediums, Experiment, and Express their feelings.

 
L- Let the children paint whatever they want!


 
 
P- Preparation and set up is uncomplicated.

 
A- Allows the children to be creative.

 
I- It belongs in every Early Childhood classroom.

 
N- Not only for indoor use but great for the outdoors too.

 
T- Target age? Great for every age.

 
I- It is fun, stimulating and joyful.

 

N-Needs to be available daily, to present opportunities to learn about science, math, language and visual arts.

 

G- Group painting invites collaboration and turn taking.

 


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Friday, February 8, 2013

Abstract Prints with Homemade Stamps

 
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
~Oscar Wilde

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Materials:

Styrofoam trays or plates
Scissors
A sharp pencil
Paint brushes
Acrylic paints
Bottle caps
Paper

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Directions:

Cut off rounded corners of the Styrofoam tray or plate. It should lay flat on top of the paper.
Use a pencil to draw your design directly on the Styrofoam, pushing hard enough to create a light indentation.
Once you have finished drawing, tape or glue a bottle cap onto the Styrofoam stamp. This makes a perfect stamp holder.
Cover the entire stamp with paint.
Press stamp down, lift up and see the beautiful reverse image.

 


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We also made prints with egg cartons.
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Friday, February 1, 2013

Stamping is Much Fun!

The children enjoyed stamping heart images made from recycled Styrofoam containers.

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Please wash and dry the containers thoroughly before the children do any art projects with them. We used different plastic bottle caps as stamp holders.

 

 

Directions:

Dampen roller with water.

Roll one layer of black paint onto the paper. We used black Liquid Watercolors.

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Cut recycled Styrofoam into different heart shapes.

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  You can make a handle by gluing or taping something to the Styrofoam heart shape. We used a recycled bottle cap.

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Squirt one color of paint in each plate or container.

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Stamp away!!!

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