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Preschool Art Projects – Painting with Gears

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Trying out new preschool art projects is something my students always seem to enjoy!  Recently, I wanted to try something different.  Ideally, it would encourage the children to think outside the box when it came to art tools.  That line of thinking reminded me of My Nearest and Dearest’s amazing painting machine.  Since the toyKeep Reading

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Pet Art Activities for Preschoolers: The Perfect Pet Theme Process Art

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Do you need some fun ideas for a preschool pet theme? If so, we have some amazing pet art activities for preschoolers that your classroom is sure to enjoy! Make sure you add them to your list of winter process art ideas. Related: “Quick as a Cricket” Fun Art for Kids During our recent pet theme,Keep Reading

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Painting without Brushes – Using Grass Feathers

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get the kids painting without brushes (using grass feathers) I am so excited to have Georgina from Craftulate guest posting today!  She’s a British mama living in America.  On Craftulate, she shares tons of great crafty ideas for the kiddos.  Personally, I love reading about her toddler art ideas and fine motor activities. Today she’llKeep Reading

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Christmas Contact Paper Art With a Seasonal Sticky Table

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Collage of preschool sticky paper art with text that reads christmas contact paper art

This Christmas contact paper art is an amazing blend of sensory play and art. What a great addition to your Christmas activities for preschoolers! Related: Christmas Tree Art with Pumpkin Seeds I love so many things about this sticky art invitation! To begin with, it’s a process art activity, which gives the kids an open-endedKeep Reading

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Fall Process Art for Preschoolers: Pumpkin Pie Painting

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Our recent pumpkin explorations led to this FUN fall process art for preschoolers.  The kiddos first enjoyed taking apart mini pumpkins, and then scooped out the seeds.  From there, we decided to use them to paint! Related: Pumpkin Crafts for Preschoolers I’ve painted with pumpkins in the past, but I wanted to try something aKeep Reading

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Spicy Apple Art for Kids {with a Literacy Twist}

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School will be starting soon, which means I’m in full teacher planning mode!  Our first preschool theme is going to be “An Apple for the Teacher”.  It’s going to focus on getting to know each other, as well as a variety of apple activities.  I wanted to try out some apple art for kids today,Keep Reading

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Painting with Coconuts: Process Art Activities for Preschoolers

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Today was the first day of our “Island Aloha” summer camp!  We packed a lot into the day, and we had way too much fun with coconuts.  Process art activities for preschoolers is something very dear to my heart.  While crafts are all well and good (and I do my fair share), letting kiddos goKeep Reading

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Painting with Marshmallows is Such a Fun Camping Theme Art Idea

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Painting with marshmallows during a preschool camping theme

Painting with marshmallows is the perfect process art activity to try during a preschool camping theme. I love setting up process art invitations for the kids! Even better is when these art experiences are with non-traditional implements. Kids seem to get a kick out of painting without paintbrushes, and what a great way to exploreKeep Reading

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A Multi-Sensory Process Art Experiment

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Ever since Engineer and I experimented with our Multi-Sensory Colorful Explosions, he’s been dying to break out the Jell-O powder again.  We’ve messed around with different variations of that experiment, but he wanted to come up with something new to do.  One day when Girly-Girl was over, I suggested using the gelatin powder to paintKeep Reading

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Apple Print-Making

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With October came a new theme at preschool . . . “Fall Harvest”.  It’s a broad topic so that each Mom’s Day Out and Preschool teacher has a lot of leeway in her planning.  Mary Poppins, Ice Ice Lady, and I decided to focus on apples, pumpkins, fall, and Halloween within this month’s theme.  OneKeep Reading

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