Vv for Veggie prints

What fun the kids had printing with vegetables today. We first talked about which foods were vegetables and which were not. We played "guess the vegetable" game  where I would describe the vegetable in my  vegetable basket and they would pick which one I was talking about.  We used long sheets of paper and assorted colors of paint for the kids to print with. For less mess and nice prints we took clothes pins and pushed the top of the clothespin  into the vegetables to make handles. They stayed in wonderfully! The cucumbers, bell peppers, and carrots we just cut in half as they are easy for the kids to hold on to. We left the seeds inside the bell pepper halves so the kids could observe them before painting with them. The kids were so creative with their vegetable  prints turning them into beautiful gardens of flowers!

                                 

Supplies needed

   assorted vegetables
washable tempera paints
shallow bowls or paper plates(for the vegetables and paint)
clothes pins for the handles
white paper (I used strips of butcher paper)

Crafting with letter Tt

                            

                           

Tiptoeing turtles in tall grass.

Today the kids had lots of fun  tearing, painting and gluing tiptoeing turtles into tall grass. I started out by adding  construction paper and tissue paper in different  shades of green to the art table  for the kids to tear. Tearing is a great fine motor skill for little ones. And oh how they love ripping and tearing paper.  Once we had ripped up lots of tall grass we glued it onto our brown construction paper. Next it was off to get  smocks on and begin sponge painting our turtles. I clipped  pieces of sponges onto clothes pins, and added them to shallow bowls of paint . We chose green and brown paint for our turtles.The kids loved covering their turtles with both colors of paint  and seeing the paint mix together. Remember its the process rather than  the product that matters in art. We didn't worry about how the turtles looked instead  we allowed them to enjoy mixing the greens and browns if they wanted to. Some kids do and some don't! After they were dry we added eyes, nose, a mouth and glued the turtles in the tall grass.

Supplies needed--

Brown construction paper

Assorted shades of green paper

Half a paper plate for each child (we added a head and feet  before the kids painted the turtles)

Brown and green paint

Sponges clipped on clothespins

Winkey blinky eyes

Glue sticks