God made the world.

I found these cute painting tools at Walmart 

and knew my kids would love painting with them. And
 they did! Today we learned about God's creation.

I set out blue and green paint, the fun brushes

and paper plates.The kids had a great time dipping 

the brushes in the paint and squishing them

 onto their paper plate worlds. When they were done
we added the Bible verse "In the beginning
God created the heavens and the earth"
Genesis 1:1.
Supplies needed
painting tools
blue and green paint
paper plates
Bible verse

Egg carton caterpillars

This is a classic preschool craft, that has been around for many years, and is 

a kids favorite!It is easy to prep and fun for the kids! Our kids at Homespun 

love painting! They had a great time painting their egg carton caterpillars. 

I started out by cutting the egg cartons in half. I poked a hole

in the top and added pipe cleaner antennas. We covered the art table 

with newspaper so the kids would be free to turn the caterpillars on

 their side to paint with out worrying about paint everywhere. After

they had dried the kids added eyes. We had quite a colorful

collections of caterpillars!

Supplies needed.

egg cartons

paint pots & brushes

washable paint

pipe cleaners

wiggly eyes

Toe caterpillars

One of the joys of Homespun Preschool

is my best friend and I teach together. 

Today she came over with  this cute art activity

 that fit right in with our letter of the week--Cc.

As each child arrived we painted their toes. 

The toe prints came out best by taking the paper

 and pressing it onto their green toes rather than

 having them step on the paper.

We cut out leaves and let the kids golf ball paint

them. Golf ball painting is always fun.
Just use a shallow box, golf balls and paint.
I just put the golf balls in the box cover them
 with the paint and the kids gently tip
 the box as the balls roll over the leaf. While the leaves were drying
   we added antennas and faces to the caterpillars
 and cut  them out. The kids glued their caterpillars
 onto their leaf. They loved seeing their
 toe caterpillars crawling

on the leaves!
Supplies needed
Green & brown paint
paint brush and paint pot
white paper
leaf cutouts
shallow boxes
golf balls
glue stick

Body tracings

How cute are these body tracings? I just love them, and the kids got such

 a kick out of painting themselves. We started out by tracing the kids onto large sheets

 of butcher paper.If you don't have any butcher paper do 1/2 a body on your easel paper 

or even tape easel paper together to make a large enough piece for tracing the kids onto. 

After the kids were traced we cut  them out. We decided to let the kids use watercolors

 on their tracings. We taped the cutouts onto the easel, put the paints on a small table 

next to the easel and let kids paint away. Each child was so excited to show 

their family their painting!   

Supplies needed

butcher paper

watercolor paints
paint pots
medium paint brushes

Self Portraits

We started our preschool program this week with one

of my favorite activities,self portraits. I found these 

cute sturdy kid cut outs at Micheal's. You can always cut your 

own out of card stock. We put out tempera paints and small brushes. 

The kids enjoyed choosing lots of different colors of paint for

their clothes. They chose buttons, hair, wiggly eyes

and mouths(elbow pasta) to finish off their

wonderful self portraits.

Supplies needed

kid cutouts

tempera paints

paint brushes

buttons

hair

mouths

Salt  art

Today we took colored salt and white school glue

and made some interesting art. I started out with bowls of salt,added

 food coloring and mixed the two together using a spoon. After letting the salt dry 

overnight, I poured it into salt shakers. You can  also use jars with holes punched in 

the lid. I have used dollar store salt shakers, baby food jars and  mini jelly jars.

 Today I used my mini salt shakers. The kids took their black paper and laid it in

a shallow box for easy clean-up. I made glue designs for my

3 year old and the older kids made their own glue designs. They had lots

 of fun shaking the salt, and  mixing the colors on their glue. Jovani 

informed the group it was great arm exercising shaking the salt.

 I just love the conversation at the art table!

Supplies needed

salt (and shakers)

food coloring

bowls/spoons

school glue

construction paper

Foil art

We had a great time making foil art Bible verse pictures.
The kids loved using "grownup markers"(sharpies) to color their shapes.
I loved that each picture looked different. First I took pieces of
sturdy cardboard and cut them in half. I then  randomly cut slits along
 the edges of the cardboard and wrapped yarn around the cardboard making sure
 the yarn was in the slits. I then taped the yarn down on the back and
covered the board with foil and taped it down.I showed the kids how to rub
 the foil so they could see yarn lines. Then they went to work coloring in
the shapes. We finished off  by  adding our Bible verse.
 Each masterpiece came out beautiful!
Supplies needed
sturdy card board
foil
yarn
sharpie markers
tape