Bouncing balloon prints

It was 110 degrees outside today in Phoenix! That 

meant I needed to find some creative inside activities for the kids! 

They had so much fun bouncing balloons through

florescent colored paint and onto white 

paper.  The paintings came out super cute! I gave each

child a paper plate with 4 puddles of paint and a

 balloon (don't blow them up to big). Then I showed them how to dip 

the balloon and bounce it over the paper until the paint was gone. 

They giggled as they painted picture after picture!Once the pictures  

were dry I stapled their paintings together and we made bouncing 

balloon books. I set foam stickers out  for them to add to

 each page of their book and had them dictate a story line

 for me to write on each page. They came up with such cute stories!

This was definitely a  fun and entertaining activity that keep us all nice and cool!

Supplies needed

florescent paint (a fun change from primary colors)

paper plates

balloons

white paper

optional --stickers

Dinosaur puppets

My kids love our week of dinosaur activities! Today

we use dinosaur stencils, do-a-dot painters

and large craft sticks to make puppets.They had

so much fun together playing with their puppets and giving

 puppet shows for each other! First I taped 2  dinosaurs 

 stencils  to white construction paper. The kids picked 

 the ones they wanted and dot painted  the 

white dinosaurs beautiful colors! They loved making them 

look like rainbow dinosaurs! We then carefully removed

 the stencils and let the pictures dry. My kids are young and not

 skilled with scissors yet so I  did the cutting.

 They added eyes and then we taped them to 

large craft sticks.They came out so cute and colorful.

Supplies needed

Dinosaur stencils

do-a-dot painters 

large craft sticks

white construction papaer

Dinosaurs

I am not sure who likes magic noodles more---me or the kids! 

Today we used them to decorate our dinosaurs. These fun noodles are
like packing peanuts, but when they are moistened  they stick, no
 glue needed! The kids had such fun laying them on a 

 wet paper towel  and  sticking them on their dinosaur shape.
 Some of the kids stacked their noodles onto each other.
They loved that the noodles could stack!
This was an easy and fun project! I Googled
 a dinosaur template, and enlarged it. Then cut dinosaurs out of
construction paper. The kids picked out a wiggly eye and glue it on
their dinosaur  then went to work creating their dinosaur
with the magic noodles. These fun magic noodles are
 available at Lakeshore learning stores and Amazon.

Supplies needed
Dinosaur shape
wiggle eyes
magic noodles
wet paper towels folded into a square

Happy Mothers Day!

Today we made a cute card for mom. I started out with a large piece 

of construction paper and folded it in half. I found cute MOM letters on 

"making learning fun"and printed them onto pink paper. After I cut them out

the kids glued it them to the top of their card and crunch up tissue paper 

to decorate "Mom".They had fun picking out tissue paper squares of 

their moms favorite colors. Next we made flowers. I set out brightly colored cupcake

 liners, turned them inside out and pressed them to flatten them a bit. 

The kids picked out the colors of flowers they wanted for mom 

 and glued them onto the card. The enjoyed gluing a little cupcake liner 

into the big one, and adding pom poms for the center of the flowers.

They added stems and leaves to complete the flowers.I found

"All about mom" on teachers pay teachers(and it was free!). The kids 

give such cute answers!! Next to their mom interview they drew a picture 

of themselves with their mom. I love to see their drawings!! For 

my toddlers I  traced their hands with a black crayon  and let them

  scribble on the tracings. I am sure each mom will treasure her

Mothers day card!

In the beginning God created...

Today at preschool we finished up our unit on creation.

At the art center I put out tissue paper kids.I  used a pattern and traced 

it onto the tissue. The nice thing with tissue is you can

 cut out lot at one time.We also used  liquid starch and  had our 

Bible memory verse out on the table. As the kids painted the starch onto

their white paper we talked about how God made people and how

 much he loves each of us. The kids liked the bright colors of

tissues kids and  enjoyed overlapping them to see what new colors 

would appear. After they arranged their kids on the 

starch painted paper they carefully brushed  the kids with more

starch. We them added our  Bible memory verse"I am fearfully and 

wonderfully made."Psalm 139:14. and painted  it with starch.

 Its best to use card stock paper for this art activity as construction 

paper tends to curl up at the corners. Tissue paper art

drys shiny and looks incredible. It's a art project

that parents will  love and want to frame. 

Supplies needed

Tissue paper cut into kid shapes

liquid starch

paint pots and brushes

card stock

Bible verse

In the beginning God created....

Today we continued our creation theme by doing

one of my favorite art activities-- painting with balls 

in a box. If you have a rambunctious group, this activity will 

calm them right down! Its so relaxing to roll marbles or 

golf balls or spiney balls back and forth and watch the 

colors make awesome designs!  Since we were on day four of creation we

 did stars in our boxes. I used gold,green and silver glitter paint and small 

spiney balls. As the kids rolled the balls across the stars 

(only rule is no hands in the box) we talked about Gods creation. 

We also talked about sizes. I cut 4 stars in 4 sizes for each child.After

the stars had dried we glued them on black paper and added our Bible 

memory verse. (I found a print out of the verse on Christianpreschoolprintables.com).

The sparkling stars looked perfect against the black paper!

Supplies needed

shallow boxes for painting in

spiney balls

glitter paint

star cutouts

black paper

glue

Bible verse

In the beginning God created.....

 We began our unit on Gods creation this week in preschool.

 At the art center I put out circles of wax paper,tissue paper, and 

cups of liquid starch and brushes. First the kids tore the 

tissue paper into pieces as I talked about how on the  first day of creation 

God made the day and night. Next we painted

 the circles with the starch while we talked about things we do at night 

and things we do during the day. After they covered their

 circles with the starch they added black and white tissue paper.

I encouraged them to gently brush the tissue with more  

starch and lay more layers of tissue on the circle. 

 The second circle we covered in shades 

of blue and green tissue to make the"earth" as we 

talked about how God created the earth and everything in it. 

After they had dried I punched a hole and added a ribbon

so the kids could hang their art work on the window as a reminder of 

Gods marvelous creation.   

Supplies needed 

wax paper cut into circles
liquid starch
brushes and paint pots

black and white tissues paper

assorted shades of blue and green tissue
ribbon