Preschool Picasso: Paint Like Picasso!

I had a great turnout for this program and it was a fun, unique theme. It was a little bit more of challenge to come up with ideas for Picasso that weren't too hard and books that weren't too long, but there was enough to make it work and a success.

I read Picasso's Trousers by Nicholas Allan. I paper clipped some pages together to make the book even shorter and avoid some of the pictures of Picasso's famous art since it might be too "adult" for the kids.

For our first Picasso inspired craft, we made Picasso faces using paint primary colors and cutouts of different eyes, mouths, noses, and ears. In the book, it is explained that Picasso painted portraits from both the side and the front of faces at the same time, so we did that with our paintings with the help of what I cut out.

For our second craft, we did a Picasso inspired guitar art project using patterned paper squares, a cut out guitar, some string, and a circle. This was a simple cubism art project to focus on Picasso's cubism technique.

A few of the group stuck around to paint some more and I reminded everyone of our time change for next month.