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!
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
I am happy to report that Work Together Wednesday (NAEYC’s Week of the Young Child™) was a success in my classroom. For me, as a teacher, watching children achieve the different levels of play, is one of the most rewarding. One of these boys spent his first year (I have all children for 2 years) at the solitary/independent level. Watching him, today, at the cooperative play stage, was so gratifying.
Evoking their problem solving skills, this little group worked together, trading ideas and pieces of Legos, to achieve their common goal of building “A cool castle with an X-wing fighter, and a super fast car that can fly.”
The castle is now sitting safely on a shelf, labeled with a “Save Me!” sign. Can’t wait to watch them play with it tomorrow.
Welcome to Preschool Play!
We're Gigi and Zoey. We teach a two-year program (preschool and pre-k), and we're passionate about Early Childhood Education and the philosophy that children learn through play. Our goal is to prepare children for kindergarten while making learning fun.
We hope that our resources inspire you, and that you will share them with your little ones.
ABC order
association
attribute variance
beginning letter sounds
butterflies
centers
children's books
classification
collage
color recognition
counting
dictation
drawing
flowers
following directions
free printables
graphing
letter formation
letter recognition
measurement
more less same
naeyc
number formation
number order
number quantity
number recognition
number sense
one-to-one correspondence
ordinal numbers
patterning
phonemic awareness
phonological awareness
playdough
printables
rhyming
self-expression
sensory bin
seriation
set recognition
shape recognition
story sequencing
templates
visual discrimination
worksheets
writing prompts
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