Garden Match Up File Folder Game

Nothing designates the arrival of spring more than flowers and fluttering butterflies. This eye-catching file folder game puts the two together, and provides children with the opportunity to brush up on their color recognition skills.

MATERIALS USED:

– File Folder
– Construction paper in various colors
– Our free butterfly and flower templates
– Scissors
– Glue
– Puffy paint

- Bugs and Insects, DIY, Spring, Writing

- butterflies, color recognition, file folder games, flowers, templates

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Family Friday 2017

Today is the last day of (NAEYC’s Week of the Young Child™, and it’s Family Friday!

We are busy drawing family portraits, while discussing the wonderful people closest to us and our experiences with them. What a fun, meaningful week it has been!

- Arts and Crafts, Fine Motor Skills, Social Emotional Development, Writing

- #woyc17, drawing, naeyc

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Foil Imprint Art

It’s Artsy Thursday, and we are on day 4 of NAEYC’s Week of the Young Child™. You know what they say: time flies when you’re having fun.

Today we are getting our hands messy with some colorful finger paint, and look! The children are painting on a new sensory texture surface; foil!

For this activity, give each child a generous piece of foil. Have them squeeze it into a ball, and then ask them to uncrumple it. Add some paint, and let your preschoolers go to town. Once they are finished painting, have them press a piece of construction paper onto the foil. Kids should use their arm/hand strength to smooth out the foil, spreading the paint below. Simply peel off the paper and voila! Behold the artsiness!

MATERIALS USED:

– Finger paints
– Foil
– Construction paper

- Arts and Crafts, Sensory Porcessing

- #woyc17, artsy thursday, finger painting, naeyc

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