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Art

A Pun for Father’s Day

June 12, 2016 By Seemi

Easy father's day craft for preschoolers

Here’s an easy Father’s Day craft if you need to throw something together at the last minute! Even the preschoolers got a chuckle out of this one!  “He’s cute!”  “He looks nothing like my dad!” “I love his nose!” We talked about how this was a “pun”.  “A pun is a kind of joke where […]

Filed Under: Art, Holidays Tagged With: Father's Day

Montessori Art Trays for Toddlers

May 29, 2015 By Seemi

Montessori Art Trays for Toddlers and Preschool

by Simone Davies Setting up art trays for your child is a fabulous way to introduce different mediums to your child, encourage creativity, build independence, and allow repetition. Let me show you the art trays we have out at the moment in our classroom for children from 16 months to 3 years. You will see […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Toddlers

On the Art Shelves in December

December 15, 2013 By Seemi

Simple art skills for December with a Christmas theme. great for preschool and kindergarten.

Here are some of the simple activities we have on our art shelves this month. Making little candy canes with left over pipe cleaner bits Lots of pinpunching variations out this month!  Perfect for making Holiday cards.  I love how sweet the santa hat and stocking look with the cotton glued on. This is a […]

Filed Under: Art, Practical Life Tagged With: Christmas, December, Winter

On the Shelves in October

October 6, 2013 By Seemi

On the Shelves in October

  Fine Motor shelves with an October theme Pouring acorns Tweezing mini pumpkins into a pumpkin icecube tray Spooning and pouring corn kernels Spooning lima bean ghosts.  Thanks to Pinterest for the inspiration! Gluing-on-a-dot using Halloween themed confetti Making a jack-o-lantern with basic shapes We have these Halloween themed paper punches available on the art […]

Filed Under: Art, Practical Life, Seasonal Tagged With: Autumn, Fine Motor, October

Organizing Art Supplies

July 14, 2013 By Seemi

Organizing teacher art supplies in my Montessori classroom

  Organizing Art Ideas Pinterest is now my organizing tool of choice for all curriculum ideas.  I have a board dedicated just to art, but I tend to add more art pins to my Unit studies boards.  This makes it easier to decide when to use a particular activity. But before Pinterest, I had binders […]

Filed Under: Art, Classroom Organization

Bugs! Fine Motor and Art Activities on the Shelf

April 13, 2013 By Seemi

Bugs! Fine Motor and Art Activities on the Shelf

We’ve been learning about bugs:  butterflies, ladybugs, grasshoppers, spiders, and cicadas! Affiliate links are used in this post for your convenience.  Read my full affiliate disclosure here. The children have begun to bring bugs in that they’ve discovered on their walks.  Here we have a black and yellow millipede in this critter case. Examining cicada shells in […]

Filed Under: Art, Practical Life Tagged With: Animals, Bugs, Fine Motor, May

Rainbows!

March 10, 2013 By Seemi

We decided to honor St. Patrick’s day with a rainbow theme this year.  Who doesn’t love rainbows? (Since we have only preschoolers in the class this year, we won’t be going into the science of rainbows.) The Colors of the Rainbow The children can use these Montessori Color Tablets to sequence the colors of the […]

Filed Under: Art, Practical Life, Seasonal Tagged With: March, Rainbows, Spring

Working with the Easel

January 17, 2013 By Seemi

Using the art easel in preschool

We love everything about painting at the easel! Over the last few weeks we’ve been exploring tints. What happens to blue when you mix it with white? I love how this little guy left the top right quadrant of his paper blank and declared his painting finished. Check out some of these old videos of […]

Filed Under: Art

January- What’s New on the Art Shelves this Winter?

January 4, 2013 By Seemi

Some winter themed basic art skills and activities for preschoolers and early learners

  Pinpunching snowflakes and mittens.  The mittens can be decorated with little dots or paper-punched snowflakes Pinpunching a snowman and decorating with various items Cutting coffee-filter snowflakes.  I like to pre-fold and pre-draw the lines, then paperclip together to help the younger ones manage this work.  Older children can be shown how to prepare the […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: January, Winter

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