Any ideas about preschool arts?

Question

Can you please give some activities that are related to arts but suited to preschoolers? thanks!

Answer 1

try this websites..

http://www.nickjr.com/index.jhtml

http://www.dltk-teach.com/alphabuddies/l...

http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/hand_pri...

Answer 2

this site has some great ideas:

www.crayola.com

or you can search on (preschool crafts and arts) and see what comes out...

Answer 3

Feet painting.  Put a long peice of paper out on the floor or even outside, allow the children to step in some paint and walk across the paper.  We recently did this and they loved it.

Allow a few children to do this at a time so you can keep it controlled.

Paint with different objects like sponges, forks, feathers, a cork, ect..

Sand painting is another good one.  Just add a little sand to the paint and it gives it a different  texture.  

Have them draw a picture of their favorite toy,  their best friend, or what activity they enjoy doing the most, ect  This activity can be changed to suit the theme.

Collage, have the children go through magazines and pick out pictures  they like and glue them to a piece of construction paper.

Finger painting or hand painting.

It doesnt have to create anything in the end.  It is the experience that is important.  Theres endless activities.

Answer 4

Remember that with preschool age kids, process is more important than product, so whatever you do needs to be open-ended.  That means focus more on what they DO than on what they MAKE.  Finger-painting is excellent.  Play-dough is great.  In fact, let them make the play-dough, and then play with it.  Give them glue sticks or small glue bottles and bits of miscellaneous collage stuff (straws, feathers, bits of paper, magazine pictures, leaves, flowers, etc.) and paper and let them make a collage.  (Be sure to teach them to use little drops of glue, and then stick something to it, otherwise they will just make big puddles of glue on the paper.)  Give them scissors and paper and let them cut small bits which they can put in a bowl and later use for the collage activity.  Put paint in empty squeeze bottles and show them how to put drops of paint on paper and fold the paper in half to create butterfly pictures.

Put on quiet music and read them a story while they listen to something quiet and classical, or let them draw  while listening to different tempos of music.  Give them scarves and let them dance to music.  Read a simple story and let them act it out.

I could go on forever, but you probably get the idea!  Remember, PROCESS not PRODUCT is your goal!

Answer 5

do finger painting...they love that!

Answer 6

I love the website www.perpetualpreschool.com  It has great ideas on a variety of themes. Just remember, it isn't the product, it's the process that helps preschoolers learn. Their art doesn't have to be exactly representative of what you were thinking in order for them to have gotten something significant out of the activity.

Answer 7

sorry... i have no idea

Answer 8

You can tape a piece of paper to the bottom of the table and have them paint like Michaelangelo did the Sistine chapel.

You can have them do dot paintings like Australian aborigines.

A personal favorite is Jackson Pollock and splatter painting (put the paper inside a large moving box and let them go at it outside, they will love it!)

Pick any painter and talk about their style, chalk painting, realist. Kids can mimic any kind of art you give them, just don't expect them to do it exactly like the artist, let them do it as they please - that's how you get new great artist!

Answer 9

i agree with the first answerer......