Toddler Art: Easter

I usually keep the same themes for Preschool Picasso and Toddler Art and this month was no exception. I went with an Easter theme and the group embraced the egg, bunny, and carrot crafts. What a way to celebrate the beginning of spring!

For our first craft, we each decorated our own card stock cut-out egg using q-tips and pink, purple, and yellow washable paint. For some of the kids, this was their first time using q-tips to paint with so that was nice to see. We all had our own unique decorated eggs with dots and squiggly lines. 

Next, I re-used the bunny craft idea from Preschool Picasso and we had made some more cute bunnies with spring cookie cutters complete with a cotton ball tail. 

For our last craft of the day, we made carrots so our bunnies could have something to eat later. I had some leftover orange tissue paper from a Halloween pumpkin craft that I used to cut squares so the kids could glue it onto their carrot. They had a green die-cut hand print to glue to the top to make the stem of the carrot. The group loved playing with the tissue paper and some in the group pretended to eat their carrots. 

The sensory bin was a hit! I reused the sensory bin from Preschool Picasso, but added some plastic carrots I found at the local dollar store so the group could pretend to be bunnies looking for carrots and eggs. They enjoyed shifting through the grass and finding stickers in the eggs. 

The q-tips, cookie cutters, and tissue paper all played into their fine motor skills while having fun with paint and crafting. 

Now onto deciding what theme to go with for the next Preschool Picasso and Toddler Art programs.