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Preschool activities: creative and educational art ideas for kids parents and childcare givers
These are some projects you can "get into". Get your aprons on and lets get started!
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Mix wet ingredients into dry ones. Enjoy!
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Add boiling water just enough to give it a gooey fingerpainting consistency.
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Mix powdered paint with dish soap until it’s thickened like house paint. Put newspaper down and cover up the window sills.
Clean with a paper towel.
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Mix pudding according to package directions.
Add food coloring. Fingerpaint on slick surface or wax paper. (food coloring may stain). If you want to just use the table, don’t add food coloring. Use chocolate and vanilla pudding.
This is a great edible art that babies can enjoy too!!
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Get a large sheet of white paper about poster board size and attach bubble wrap onto the rollers and paint away. It will make some interesting effects
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Mix starch with enough cold water to make a paste. Add boiling water and stir until clear. Cool and add soap flakes and coloring. Store in air-tight container.
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Cover the ground with newspaper. Tape a piece of white paper in the center. Dilute poster paint with a little water to make it runny. Dab a bit of paint on the paper and use your straw to blow paint around on the paper. Keep adding different colors and blending them around before the paint dries. Blow the paint in different directions from the center.
Let dry.
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Cut a piece of white paper to fit the bottom of your box. Tape the paper to the bottom of the box. Using your gloves, dip the marble into the paint. Place the marble on the paper in the box. Swirl the box around to make designs. Let the paint dry. Use more marbles dipped in other colors to make more designs, drying after each marble.
Use different colored paper and fluorescent colors. Use black paper with white fluorescent paint, or red paper with white paint. Use your imagination.
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Removes easily with soap and water
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Cover the ground with newspaper.
Place your white drawing paper inside the box and put your chosen item on top of the paper.
Dip the bristles of the toothbrush in the watercolor or poster paint. Point the brush downwards at the paper. Rub your fingers over the bristles toward yourself to splatter paint around the “item”. Remove the item. Let the paint dry. The splattered paint will outline the picture.
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Put different paint colors in tubs (only add a little bit on bottom of tub)
Dab the sponge in paint and blot it on paper towel lightly
Paint with your sponge on the white paper, making designs.
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Put newspaper down. Clean a potato and have an adult cut it in half. Draw a shape on the cut surface with a pen. Cut away the edges so that the shape stands out.
Put some paint on a clean meat tray. Dip the potato into the paint and then press it on a piece of paper. Let the paint dry.
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Cover the surface with newspaper
Fold a piece of construction paper in half, then unfold it.
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Mix the water, dish soap, and a few drops of food coloring in a plastic cup. Place the plastic cup on the baking sheet. Place the straw in the cup, and blow bubbles through the straw till they spill over the baking sheet. Remove the cup and place a piece of paper down over the bubbles. Lift the paper off. The colored bubbles will create designs on the paper.
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Mix together!
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Put dish soap and water in a container with a lid. Stir mixture (don’t shake).
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Help your child drizzle glue on a sheet of paper in any design. Take some colored sand, cornmeal, or birdseed on top of the glue to make a picture.
Pop the ball out of a deodorant bottle and fill the bottle with tempera paint. Add a little water so it doesn’t stay too thick. These are fun to paint with.
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Find small seashells. Glue them on a picture frame. Let the glue set and then put your picture in the frame. You can also decorate the lid of a box with small seashells, or tiny rocks from the beach.
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Cover your work surface with wax paper. Dip your pasta into the watered down paints and let dry. Paint polka dots, lines or other colors if you wish and again let dry.
String the pasta “beads” and tie the ends together to make a knot.
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Kid’s can use their “artistic” abilities all over the sidewalk and driveway! You can just rinse it with water to remove the chalk.
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Mix until all lumps are out. Pour into spray bottle. Test an area to see if it stains. You can lay down poster paper on the lawn and spray there if it does. This activity is for older children-cover clothing with aprons.
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Mix water & soap flakes together. Add food coloring and put mixture into an icecube tray. Allow to harden. Break or cut into pieces. Fun to write with in the tub when bathing.
Put 1-2 Tablespoons of alcohol and a drop or two of food coloring in a baggy along with pasta, and shake. You can do the same thing with rice.
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Place a piece of paper over some leaves. Rub a crayon or pencil back and forth over the paper to show the texture of the leaves. You can do this with any kind of object: keys, wood, tile, greeting cards etc…Make a collage out of the designs.
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Your kids can do this while in the tub or on a cookie sheet.
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Cover the wall of the tub with shaving cream. Draw designs and pictures. If you want to erase it, just wipe your hand over the surface and start over. Make sure you rinse the shaving cream off after your through. If your using a cookie sheet, put a dab of shaving cream or coolwhip on sheet and add a drop of food coloring to the cream and blend together. Now you can create!
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Twist old crayons in a small handheld pencil sharpener to make shavings. Spread them on a sheet of waxed paper. Place another sheet on top. Cover them with a towel. Have an adult iron over it till the crayons are melted.
Remove the towel, and use the oven mitt to smooth over the waxed paper. This will mix the colors together. After the crayons have cooled, cut the waxed paper into a shape you like.
Poke a hole through the top of the sun catcher with a hole punch or needle. String with thread to hang it in the window.
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It should be quite thick, so it won't run all over the paper. Add a pinch of salt. Non-toxic. Great for pasting scraps of paper, old Christmas cards. Its not too sticky.
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This can be played with on paper, the kitchen table or counter. Be sure to dress the kids in washable paint shirts or aprons. Keep soap out of eyes. Not recommend for little ones who put everything in their mouths.
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Mix flour, water and salt to make the paste the consistency of thick gravy. Sprinkle in the food coloring. Be sure to dress little ones in an old apron or shirt. Put spoonfuls of paint on kitchen table or sheets of butcher paper and let them create. Cleans up fairly easily. Sm. margarine tubs work well for the individual colors.
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Stir while cooking, and cook until stiff. Allow this to cool, and cover with a damp cloth until ready to use. Coloring may be added before cooking or when molded; let dry, then paint with water color.
HOW TO CARE FOR CLAY:
Clay can always be broken up, dampened, and used again - even after it has been painted.
When it has been used, but has not been allowed to become hard, poke holes in the clay with your finger or with a pencil, fill these with water (to restore the original dampness) and place in an airtight crock or in a galvanized pail with a tight cover. A damp cloth placed over the clay will help to keep it moist until the next time.
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In a medium bowl, stir gelatins together with a fork. Stir cinnamon into boiling water until dissolved. Add water to gelatin and stir until dissolved. Pour into an 8" to 9" square pan. Chill about 2 hours, until firm. Using 2" to 3" animal cookie cutters (such as cat, owl, horse) cut out shapes. (These little critters do not melt at room temperature.) Makes 8 servings. (You could also use any cut out shapes, according to the holiday at hand!)
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Put pudding mix and milk in a medium size bowl. Beat with electric mixer at low speed for two minutes. Let set until it thickens. Finger paint on white construction paper and let dry for several hours. Now it's ready to hang up.
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Mix together and let the kids paint the patio. It disappears! (Bluing can be found at the grocery store in the laundry products aisle.)
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Combine all ingredients in small saucepan. Cook over low heat until well blended, stirring constantly. Cool completely. Store in tightly covered clean jar. Ink is pale pink on colored paper. Expose to heat or light bulb and writing turns blue.
Note: Cobalt chloride and dextrin may be purchased from a chemical supply house and glycerine from a drug store.
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Place soap flakes and water in a medium size bowl. Squeeze the mixture together with your hands until it becomes slightly damp and sticks together. (This mixture dries quickly, so you'll have to work fast!) Now you can form it into any shape you'd like, animals, snowmen, decorations, tree ornaments, etc. Place the finished sculpture(s) in the refrigerator to harden.
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