Preschool Picasso is much like Toddler Art, but for a slightly older age group. Since the kids are more attentive from ages 3 to 5, we also have fun dancing to a bean bag song and reading a story that goes along with the theme.
I started with "The Bean Bag" song by Hap Palmer. It seems like there is never a child who doesn't like dancing along using bean bags.
After our movement activity, I read Hugs and Hearts by Toni Trent Parker. This is a picture book with photographs describing what activities are done to celebrate Valentine's Day.
We jumped right into our first out of two crafts. The first craft was "Heart Cookie Cutter Prints." Different sized cookie cutter hearts dipped with purple, pink, and red paint were used as stamps. The kids quickly caught on how they could stamp a smaller heart inside a bigger heart, making it an educational activity understanding little to big. Some kids chose to use a paint brush to apply the paint to the edge of the cookie cutters.
The last craft we did was "Fingerprint with Love." We used out finger tips or q-tips to make dots around the letter die cuts and then pealed our die cuts off to see the word, "love." Some kids left their letters on, which looked just as good. They also got really creative decorating with paint in all different ways, adding a uniqueness to their art.
For a sensory bin, I froze foam hearts, felt hearts, pom poms, and other Valentine color pieces inside an ice tray. The kids had fun melting the cubes to get to the trinkets. There was a tad bit of splashing, but once they were told not to splash, they still had a fun time playing in the cold water and melting the hard ice. I got the idea from a pin on Pinterest, but for some reason the glove idea wasn't working too well for me and the ice cubes worked out just fine.
We had the same reporter who visited Toddler Art visit this class and the parents were just as excited.
Happy Valentine's Day!
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