Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, October 21, 2013

Willow Room: MWF class

We read "The apple pie tree" by Zoe Hall

We painted using prickle balls that we held with a clothes pin so we could dab them.  We had chalk boards with colored chalk at the easel.

Our classroom hen, she laid eggs, we will wait for them to "hatch"

Look at her eggs!

Prickle balls, we attach a clothes pin to make them easier to hold and dab on the paper.

Picture made with fall colors and prickle balls.

Our sensory table has the feed corn, the corn cobs and now the apple peels to explore.

 We made our own apple turnovers using the applesauce we made last week.

We did "couch potato pokey", "5 little ducks" and we did "the freeze dance" (we danced with ribbons)

We read "The ear book" by Al Perkins.

we have a pretend hen in our room and she laid eggs! We will watch each day to see what happens.

We dried the apple peels from last week and put them in our sensory table.

Oak Room: Pre- k 5 day class

We read "Stellaluna" by Janell Cannon.  We talked about the word "nocturnal" and what it means and what animals are nocturnal.

We made bat prints in the night (black paint on dark blue paper)

We did a 5 little bats fingerplay, "The little fish song", "Sticky bubble gum" for music time.

We talked about the letter G today.

Maple Room:  MWF class

We read "The biggest pumpkin ever" by Elizabeth Bennett

We used a new paint mixture, cornstarch and liquid water colors with a little water added in too. The we froze it. It looks like chalk when we painted with it.

The children painting with frozen paint.

Paints look like chalk.

cornstarch and liquid water color (w water added) and frozen paint.

We had leaf stampers at the easel.

We are starting our letter of the week, this week we are talking about the letter "A".

We "The October song", "alphabet sounds", "5 little pumpkins", and "I'm a little scarecrow".

Shaving cream and water color pictures

This cool process was fun to watch the kids as they explored what happened.  Some wanted to use all the colors, some had puddles of color on the trays, some chose exactly where they wanted each color.  They had fun using the tools to move the color around too.  The end result may not look like much when it dries, but they sure had fun with the process. 

We squirted shaving cream onto trays and the children added watercolors.

They love using eye droppers to add the color (we use diluted liquid water colors form Discount school supply) 

After adding ht colors, the children used hair picks, toothpicks, popscicle sticks, etc to spread the colors around.

After they finished we took a print to transfer the paint and shave cream to the paper.  We are not sure yet, how they will dry, but this was totally about the process.

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Maple Room Learns about Eric Carle

A selection of materials the children were given to embellish their painting.

Each child was given a paper plate with fresh paint to begin their picture.

First the children painted using brushes or other tools to spread the paint on the paper.

The children used bubble wrap, potato mashers, scrapers, dab tools to make unique images.

They also had legos, and texture pads to use for painting.

The teacher wet the paper slightly and many children spread paint all over the paper before adding textures with other tools.

Each picture came out so unique.

Two of Eric Carle's books the teacher read first and showed the children how he made his illustrations.

 

We watched a video by Eric Carle about how he made the illustrations for  The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The children are learning about the wonderful illustrator and author, Eric Carle.  We have been reading some of his books all week and today we talked about  how he creates his illustrations.  The teacher showed the children tissue paper and tracing paper and explained how he paints right on tissue with paint and other materials to create the various looks.  We didn't paint on tissue paper as it is pretty thin and fragile, so we used regular paper, but followed some of his techniques. We are going to use the paper after it dries to create some pictures on Friday.  I will post those pictures too. We watched a video on you tube by Eric Carle about how he created his Very Hungry Caterpillar. We talked to the children about what an author does and what an illustrator does.     It was fun to see how excited they were and how much they understood.  You can find many great videos about Eric Carle books, art, etc on you tube.

Here is the link to the Eric Carle video we showed the kids.
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/video.jsp?pID=1640149541&bcpid=1640149541&bclid=1557820329&bctid=14259130001

Bottle Brush Painting in the Willow Room

As you can see, we love to find new, fun objects to use for painting at our school. Here the teachers took baby bottle brushes and the children dipped them into paint and brushed back and forth across the paper. The result not only mixes two colors, it provides a unique texture and also gives the children a new experience. It feels different to paint with a bottle brush, vs a paint brush.

Smash, mash, scrape, and roll group painting process

We added drops of paint and the children did a big group art project where they used a variety of objects to move the paint around the paper. We had flat scrapers, big plastic tubes, and some flat smashers we made by adding a handle to a flat piece of plastic. They were able to use large muscles to push, squash, roll the paint all around the large sheets of paper. Great way to use recycled objects in art.

Winter preschool art projects Willow and Maple rooms

We placed a slanted tray and had the children use eye droppers to drip slightly watered down tempra glitter paint to look like icicles on dark blue paper. We sprinkled silver glitter on top. Later, we added a triangle roof to make our house.



















We buy packages of precut wax paper, parchment paper, or deli paper, and have the children paint on it using stampers dipped in glitter paint. We then add a shape cut out (another class used a tree shape, we have also used triangles, stars, etc.) and place it over the paper allowing the excess to remain. We like the look of the whole paper showing. We hang them on the windows to decorate our rooms. One of our favorite projects.

Painting with Crumpled Aluminum Foil- process art

Ahead of time the teachers prepare the crumpled foil and make a portion stick up like a handle.

Crumple the aluminum foil and dip in paint, then press onto paper to make fun designs.
This is great to do on black paper as the color can really pop.

This is also a good sensory experience as the children can feel the texture of the foil, experience the pressure it takes to make the foil make a print without squishing the foil too much so it flattens it. also great for non-messy for children who don't want to touch the paint.

Creative art- using kitchen utensils to create art

This is one of my favorite art projects because the children get to use common household objects to create art. We use potato mashers, plungers, egg beaters, and whisks dipped in paint and pressed onto paper to make wonderful, fun pictures.

Fly swatter painting

This fun process art group project is done by putting out trays of bright colored paint and new fly swatters. The children just smack the fly swatters again the paper (which we attach with clips to the easel boards by the fence).

Powder Paint Pictures

This is a cool process art project where the children dip a brush into water, then into the powder paint and onto the paper. We have done it before on white paper and liked it, but the black paper really made the colors pop.