Here's what we did this week: thick homemade paint! Each child was given a bowl and mixed in some paint with a little salt, flour, glue and water. This mix makes a paste-like paint, wonderful for fingerpainting or spreading it with tools like a painter's palette knife. This exercize gives the child the freedom to make a paint mixture independently and allows lots of space for discovering what all the ingredients do when they are mixed together.
For the second part of the class- after a lot of hand washing!- we sewed on cards. I gave the children yarn in different colors and they practiced their fine motor skills by sewing the yarn through the holes in the card. Then they colored the spaces in between the yarn.
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