Happy Saturday! I just wanted to take a second to let y’all know about the new art themed picture based blog post series I’m about to start up. Each week, I take oodles of pictures of the art that your wonderful children are producing day in and day out and I wanted a way to share this outside of my normal blog posts. So, every few weeks, I’m going to update “Picture This!” with new pictures of our recent art! Don’t worry, still the same blog, just a running series of posts within and I’ll always call it “Picture This!” Excitement! Now, without further ado…
The kids love this book, so I thought we’d find a way to incorporate it into an art activity!
In case you’ve never read Sneezy the Snowman, he melts over and over again because he’s too cold and keeps trying to warm himself up by drinking hot chocolate, sitting in a hot tub, and standing by a fire.
Here’s a link to a reading of Sneezy the Snowman on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RiHfYElP-M
First we painted snowmen and decorated them and then, using straws, we blew our snowmen into oblivion!
Looks like a melted snowman to me!
Next, we decided to take normal Play-Doh to the next level and draw on it!
Each child got their own hunk of white Play-Doh and then took to it with markers.
And once they’d finished drawing on it, we mixed it up with great success! Beautiful!
Played with our Play-Doh…
And even practiced our letters.
Our end result: Play-Doh as unique as each child’s imagination and a great future toy!
We also tried our hand at replicating snowflakes!
All we had to do was place tape on watercolor paper in the shape of snowflakes…
Paint…
And pull the tape off!
Not one snowflake like any other!
With Pajama Day coming up and yet another book we all love, we started making our very own red pajamas from all manner of materials, including tape, noodles, and glitter.
Here’s a link to a reading of Llama Llama Red Pajama on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD1g3P-nKWo
After we were finished decorating our pajamas, we could move on to the next step of making sure we put heads, hands, and feet on our pajamas.
Because headless pajama would be scary – Eek!
Some of us wanted to use yarn for our hair and others just used pencils and crayons.
But either way, we drew our faces, painted our hands, and stamped our feet and soon had…
Pajama clad versions of ourselves to take home on Pajama Day!
We also painted many a picture over the past few weeks, something we quite love to do.
You just can’t go wrong with paint!
Our creations included this car, which looks like it came straight out of a children’s book…
And the Moaning Lisa!
We circled back around to snowflakes and tried our hand at decorating them too.
Once more, not a snowflake too similar!
We had a few sensory tables thrown into the mix as well!
Here, our biodegradable packing peanuts are dissolving in water…
Being squished by children…
and rolling around in a bucket of shredded paper “snow!”
Can you tell yet how desperately we are hoping it will snow very very soon?
Finally, we built things, drew things, and just played and had fun!
Wiki Sticks!
Spaghetti and Meatballs!
Melty Beads
Loose Parts
Look at that structure!
HAPPINESS!
It’s only a snapshot – I take at least a hundred pictures a week – but hopefully it brings you into our world of art and exploration. Until next time!
~ Miss Kt, Clubhouse Kids Teacher & Atelierista (Art Teacher)
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