Little Library Art!

Our First Little Library!!!......

 Complete with a little peek window in the back and arty details off each side......

Backyard Science

Playing with the hose lead to an awesome conversation about how water reflects light.... The sunbeams weren't showing up until they were showered with water......

Love these surprise big learning moments!

Making Little Paper Nests

Today we made little nests out of all of our old scrap paper, a little water, and some liquid starch. Some kids didn't like the gooey feel of the wet paper so I found some big tweezers to help with the project :)
Final picture coming soon......

Learning Letters in Glurch!

 

The kids had the best time playing with glurch today for something other than playdough. 

They worked on hiding jewels and stamping letters!

A Little Broken Bike....

We have had a broken bike in the shed for a while at school and decided to bring it in for "repairs". We have been looking at Alexander Calders sculptures this month and talking about sculpture in general. The kids were delighted to see the bike in the classroom last week with a bowl of "supplies" to fix/enhance/design with. This is the beginning......

Bottle Cap Art

We have been collecting caps as a class for a collaborative project. Once we collected a huge box full we spent some time sorting by color and counting by 5's and 10's. Next, we played a game by rolling colored dice to match the color and place the caps. Our project will end up spelling the name of our preschool - Kaleidoscope. Each classroom has a panel with three letters on it.... See the final project below!

Dot exploration.....

Today we took a closer look to see dot patterns in our paper towels. We have been looking around for more dots as we work on our collaborative bottle cap project. 

Little Treasure Nests

Dollar store treasure nests....

What can you Make a Circle Into......?

a bear

"me"

a copy of this little dog!

a T Rex

A Sparkle Monster

A Bowl of Icecream

a house with my Dad, clouds and the sky

Busy Busy Spring Days!

Today we tested which sound we liked better for our parade maracas.... beans... or rice.....

 We have also spent some time sorting pom poms....

 and of course sorting caps for our collaborative cap art project.....

 We are also busy tearing and cutting tiny pieces of paper that we will soon add water too and make our own slurry for a paper project!

Andy Warhol Art

We have been working on repeated artwork. I took pictures of each student and repeated it four times. Then they colored each black and white image of themselves in.

This project we talked about  matching. There were two matched images in opposite corners and then they drew two more images to match and painted....
We are working on how to hold/use our brushes while we use liquid watercolor.

Eric Carle Mixed Up Crazy Animal Art!

We started by drawing our favorite real animal...

Then we read the book Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle

and the cutting and pasted palooza began!

adding the seeds for our "Tiny Seed" project

Making the flowers from our "Tiny Seed" project

Class Dino

We started this project with plain empty boxes in an effort to create a work of art to cover the drinking fountain in the hall that is turned off. Unfortunately, we had to move it out of the hall but it gets to be in our room now! 

We stacked them and brainstormed some ideas of what it could be....

a giraffe, building, giant banana, zebra... we let those thoughts simmer and Next, we painted the boxes green for more inspiration. 

We stacked again and some more ideas came to us but we landed on dinosaur!

We voted on how the arms should look, if it had sharp nails or soft... and finally placed a mirror next to him to compare our eyes with his/hers, nose, teeth, nails etc....

The dino has been a fun addition to the room!

Different Things Happening at the Same Table

Love that the same supplies inspire different activity!

Heart Art

We have been discussing portraits as well as reading the book "My Heart is Like Zoo". In the book the shape of the heart turns into many different kinds of animals...... The book was our inspiration for today...

Faces Everywhere!

This happened at snack today... We happened to have a variety of things for snack and before I knew it she was creating a portrait complete with popcorn hair!

Nature Inspired Person....

A little ephemeral art at school today. We have been talking quite a bit about portraits and the pieces to put together to draw people and animals. One student created a person on his own today. Then, others joined in to create animals out of rocks and pine cones!
Fun day in the play yard!

Recycled Faces

Today we took our inspiration from a bag of scraps and the book "Let's Make Faces".....

More Faces

We have been looking at books related to faces like:
The holes in your nose
all the Dr.Seuss books Eyes, Noses, Feet......
Faces for Baby
and Let's make faces and more
We have also been taking a closer look at Picasso and the different lines and shapes he used for his work.
Here are some more drawings that are being created from our face exploration. I love the differences in the two!

Polar Bear Face Exploration

We took a break from looking at human faces for our face exploration and today we took at look at polar bears! We watched a live web cam while we drew polar bear faces....

We discussed the shape and line that we saw in the print outs of the polar bears while we drew.