What media (art) have you used in your preschool classroom?

Question

Beyond markers and crayons...:-)

Answer 1

torn up pieces of construction paper to glue one to another piece of construction paper to form a picture or letter

gluing squares of tissue paper on to paper to form something, example a flower or rainbow

cut out pictures in magazines and make a collage

Answer 2

are you serious???? FINGER PAINTING cuz i thought it was cool that we get our fingers dirty

Answer 3

paint with brushes, Q-tips, fingers

tissue paper that 'bleeds' on the paper with water

water paint

gluing collage items

sponge painting

Answer 4

-Finger paints made with shaving cream and food coloring.  

-Making musical instruments out of plastic containers for shakers, old coffee cans for drums, and shoe box guitars with rubber bands for the strings.

-Homemade play dough: 3cups flour, 1cup salt, 3tbsp oil, and 1 cup water (food coloring for color)

-let them tear up colored paper and glue it down to make a mosaic-like collage

Answer 5

I LOVED doing macoroni art. I also loved doing those murals with candy so you could eat the extra pieces.

Answer 6

For general mark making, pencil crayons, wax crayons, pencils, sketching pencils, biros, charcoal, chalk and ink (for stamps) are quite easy to use on a daily basis.

Obviously paint is an easy one (poster, powder, water colours, glittery) but can be used in different ways (straight onto paper, straight onto tables, finger painting; bubble painting is also lots of fun - add a small amount of washing up liquid to powder paint and water, mix, put the pot on top of a piece of paper/straight on the table/wherever you don't mind getting messy, and blow into the mixture with a straw.  The bubbles will flow out of the pot and make patterns as they dry.  

Cornflour is great fun - mix with water to make a runny (ish) 'gloop'.  Children can use their fingers for mark making or add tools (Bowls, spoons, sieves, etc) depending on what your focus might be.  Great for practising letters; numbers; shapes; measure etc, add paint and you can do a bit of colour mixing too!