Perfectly Preschool



Feely Painting
Materials:
  • Paper
  • Shaving Cream
  • Paint
  • Sand
Directions:
  • Let your children paint with hands using a mixture of shaving cream, paint, and sand. The Children will love the fill.
  • You can also let your children paint with just plain shaving cream or chocolate pudding


Things I See
Materials:
  • Magazines
  • Pictures of your class and the outdoors
  • Paint
  • Paper
Directions:
  • Let your children make a collage of things that they see in their day


Chalk Dance Art
Materials:
  • Sidewalk Chalk
  • Music
Directions:
  • Take your children outside. Play music and challenge them to use sidewalk chalk and draw the music. Another alternative is to give them the chalk and tell them to hold it on the sidewalk as they dance.


Scratch and Sniff Watercolor Paintings
Materials:
  • Paper
  • Kool-Aid
Directions:
  • Mix Kool-Aid with water (about two tablespoons). Then let the children paint with the mixture. After the painting dry you have great scratch and sniff pictures.
  • Warning: Kool-Aid can stain clothes, tables, and floors


Five Senses Gingerbread Art
Materials:
  • Sandpaper
  • Crayons
  • Cinnamon Sticks
Directions:
  • Cut out gingerbread men sandpaper and give them to your children. Allow them to decorate their Gingerbread man with crayons, and cinnamon sticks. The children will be able to smell and taste the cinnamon, feel the sandpaper, hear the scratching (of cinnamon and sandpaper), and finally see their gingerbread people