As a class, we made the letter A shape with our arms. We put on our smocks and created an apple basket by gluing burlap strips onto an outline of a basket on paper to recreate the weave of the basket. Then I gave each student an outline of a tree on paper, and we painted the top of the tree green. They enjoyed using paints and brushes. Then we mixed red and green paint to make brown for the tree trunk. I gave each student a red pom pom apple to glue onto their trees. They did a super job with the art materials!
Teddy designed and assembled a Mini Teddy figure out of cardstock today in art class, He drew his face, designed his hair and clothing, and assembled it together. He took great care to design his shirt, pants, and sneakers in the colors red, orange, and blue. He also skillfully created his hair in yellow felt. Then Teddy wanted to create something in air-dry clay. He made a clay hat with eyes and eyebrows for one of Cam's lizards. Very creative!
We started art studio time by practicing walking feet to the rug for circle time. Then we sang Bubba the Baby Bumble Bee by Jack Hartman and did the buzzing sounds and hand movements.
Next, we practiced standing and walking to the art station. I gave the verbal cue, “Artists, please stand. Artists, please walk to the art station.” The little artists then created three pieces of art: 1) a bumble bee with alternating black and yellow paper squares to create alternating patterns, 2) a beehive with burlap strips for texture, and 3) a backpack to decorate with color and texture.
The little artists were on task and well behaved. Each artist received three reward stickers. It was a great preschool art studio day!
Preschool Arts and Crafts: The Letter T and T is for Turtle
Lesson Outline
To start off the learning, we sang a song with hand movements about turtles, as Sarah has been teaching them the letter “T.” T is for turtle. Then we read the book Turtle Splash: Countdown at the Pond.
We did several activities involving T is for turtle: coloring a T is for Turtle Page and tracing the upper case "T" and lower case "t;" gluing cut paper on a turtle to create a collage; and gluing the legs, head, and tail on paper to create a turtle’s body and then adding green paper squares to create the shell.
We also practiced pasting cut paper to make a collage on a printout of a glue bottle. Our message: "In This Class We Stick Together!" Then the students drew with markers on paper to create images of their choice.
Remington selected a sneaker to decorate with his favorite things. The first one was a soccer ball. Remington said he did not know how to draw a soccer ball, so I got one of my "how to draw" books. We found a soccer ball. We practiced first on scrap paper and then drew it on the sneaker. He colored it with colored pencil. Then I showed him some little drawing prompt cards that were started and needed to be finished. He completed four of the cards making a dog, a tree, a zombie who was thinking, and another character he likes. He did a great job! He asked if he could work in clay during our next class, and I said he could!
Teddy has not yet arrived to school. Dr. Mary has approved this as my planning period. I will have fun, exciting, and educative art lessons for Teddy when he returns to school.
