Baking soda and vinegar activity

The children dripped vinegar with water colors added onto a tray with baking soda on it.  The result foamed and colored the baking soda.  Great for fine motor play too.  The children were fascinated by this.

Ice play in preschool classroom

The children used eye droppers to drip colored water onto ice blocks,  We also used salt  in shakers to add salt to melt it faster and make crevices. 

Ice Snowman creation in Pre- k class

Adorable ice snowman

We froze three ice filled water balloons and stacked them to make an ice snowman.  We sprinkled salt on each ice ball to make the next one fit on top.  We added some tissue paper buttons, and face features.

Paint on ice- Maple room

We froze blocks of ice and put regular tempra paint in ice cube trays with paint brushes. The way the paint froze onto the surface of the ice gave a unique look and texture. This was all put int the sensory table.

Geraldine's Big Snow art project

We read the story about Geraldine's Big Snow and did a two day project to make our own snowman in a snowstorm. The first part was painting with empty thread spools dipped in white glitter paint. After it dried, we cut out snowman shapes and added our own decorations to them with markers. Then we glued it onto our snowy picture.

Creative art- using plastic back rollers

These are one of our favorite art tools. They are plastic back rollers from the Dollar store! The little nubs on the wheels make dots on the paper and they make noise too, which the kids love!

Sometimes we use them on big paper for the large arm movement of rolling back and forth, and sometimes we use them on the easel so they are rolling up and down or across the easel paper.

This project used white paint and black paper. The spots ended up looking like snow at night. We read the book "Snowmen at Night" to tie in a literacy activity. After they were done, we added a frame work to cover part of the picture to look like a snowflake. They came out pretty and it is a wonderful creative art activity.

The pictures even look like a snowstorm is happening.

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.

Snowman Cutting Project in Pre k room

After the children cut out circles and glue them onto the paper, they add "snow" by dipping Q-tips into white paint. They use markers to add details. This is a multi-step art project, so it is also good for problem solving. This is one of our favorite projects.

Ice cube painting - Maple Room

We froze liquid water colors into ice cubes with popscicle sticks. The we used them on water color paper. As the ice cube melts, the colors become vibrant.

Ice explorations- Maple room

We froze small winter objects in bowls of ice. Then we put them in our sensory table with eye droppers in some light blue water. The children used the eye droppers to drop water onto the ice and "free" the objects.