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Painting

Exploring a new art canvas in preschool

by Deborah J. Stewart September 3, 2010 Creative Art

These children are in their first week of preschool and today they explored painting on aluminum foil. Many of the children began their painting with one finger dipped in paint. It was interesting watching the children slowly make little fingerprints on their foil canvas. They were meticulously going back and forth from paint to canvas, painting [...]

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Flour and food color painting in preschool

by Deborah J. Stewart August 29, 2010 Creative Art

I am always on the look out for different art mediums that the children can explore. The children enjoyed the new texture of this homemade “paint” their teacher mixed up. The teacher mixed up some flour and water in a large bowl until it had a creamy consistency. Each of the children had a large [...]

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Finger painting fun by Carol Brooke

by Deborah J. Stewart August 23, 2010 Creative Art

There’s something quite intriguing about feeling paint on your fingers as you spread it onto your canvas. Do it yourself and try not to smile. Feeling the texture, seeing what happens when colors are mixed and the paint is spread across the canvas is important learning… Fun as it may be! You will need: -newspaper [...]

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A is for painting apple trees in preschool

by Deborah J. Stewart August 22, 2010 Apples

I just love apples and the beginning of a new school year gives me every excuse I can to have fun making and learning about apples. To make these fun little apple trees, gather up some red, yellow, green paint, and some brown construction paper. I used a tissue roll but you can also use [...]

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Roller pin painting in preschool

by Deborah J. Stewart August 22, 2010 Creative Art

Gather up a roller pin, some bubble wrap, and bright colors of paint for this fun and colorful painting activity! I noticed two different classes doing some roller pin painting today so I will show you both versions. Start by wrapping the bubble wrap around the rolling pin… Tape it so it will stay in [...]

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Painting with colors in preschool: A repost because I wanted to add words!

by Deborah J. Stewart August 4, 2010 Creative Art

Sorry about the long title! I just couldn’t let this go without saying something. I always have something to say…. This is such a terrific example of how an art project can be so simple but so much fun. Sometimes, I think we over think the process of art and worry to much about the [...]

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Wordless Wednesdays: Painting with Color

by Deborah J. Stewart August 4, 2010 Painting

Check out these great activities for color! More wordless Wednesday links are here

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Swat paint printing in preschool

by Deborah J. Stewart August 2, 2010 Creative Art

Any time I try a new idea I can’t help but get carried away. These were just as fun to make as they were to paint with. Yesterday I shared how to make swatters with foam squares and straws. Today we used foam squares, foam stickers, and craft sticks. Before decorating each foam square with [...]

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Making your own paint swatters for preschool

by Deborah J. Stewart August 1, 2010 Creative Art

I just love all the swatter painting that has been going on out there in preschool blog land and happened to be at school and noticed a teacher that had made her own swatters. My niece and I thought we would make a few of our own swatters. We used foam squares, straws, hole punches, [...]

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Chalk paint and print-making with preschoolers and toddlers

by Deborah J. Stewart July 30, 2010 Creative Art

For those of you following along, you know that I am on a quest to introduce the concept of painting to my little nephew Wy. I could make Wy sit down with me, hold his hand, and make him paint a picture but that is a sure fire way to get him to NEVER want [...]

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Craft stick painting with toddlers

by Deborah J. Stewart July 24, 2010 Craft Sticks

Yesterday Wy and I tried a little kick box painting so while Wy was still in the mood, we tried a little craft stick painting too. We gathered a handful of craft sticks, some paint, paper, and a box with a lid. Wy dumped everything into the box and tapped on the paint cups to [...]

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Kick box painting with toddlers

by Deborah J. Stewart July 23, 2010 Boxes

My nephew Wy loves to kick balls, push cars, and color with markers but there is one thing that he really doesn’t seem to like…. Wy doesn’t like to paint. When Wy gets a little paint on his hands, he stops in his tracks and just stares like it is a disease. But unfortunately for [...]

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Graphing and painting with oranges

by Deborah J. Stewart July 20, 2010 Creative Art

When painting with objects, I always print the word of the object on the paper so the children can see that word as they participate in the activity. In this case the word is Orange. We cut an orange in half and used one of the halves for creating orange prints on our paper. For [...]

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Ribbon painting in preschool

by Deborah J. Stewart July 16, 2010 Creative Art

One of the things I love most is to build an entire day around music or even build an entire day around one single preschool song. When I write songs, I am always visualizing the many amazing things that can be done with that song. Today I added the Ribbon Song to my fingerplay blog [...]

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Polk-a-dots and straws in preschool

by Deborah J. Stewart July 13, 2010 Creative Art

This week, the children explored making polk-a-dots with straws. Red, yellow, and blue paint was set out along with a straw in each paint. The children dipped the end of the straws into the paint. Then pressed the painted end of the straw on the paper. New colors were added to the page as desired. [...]

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