PAINTING EVERYWHERE

This week, we focused with the 1-2 years old on painting on different kinds of surfaces., such as bubble wrap and foil. As the pictures show, toddlers like to move around and soon enough they were painting also on the sand, then mixed the sand into the paint in the cups, tried it on the easel, went back to the table, and so on!

 

 

And some also try out the paint on steps...

...or bamboo sticks...

And then we cooled off with some water play/ clean up time!!!

FOIL PAINTING AND TISSUE ART

Today, we started off with gluing colored tissue paper to paper plates. The kids drew a geometric design onto the plates and then crumpled little pieces of tissue paper, dipped them into glue and stuck them onto the plate.

The idea was to cover the whole plate, but after 15 min of gluing they were all satisfied with their creations, and the paper plates weren't covered yet. So we continued onto the next project, which was foil painting. We mixed tempera paint with liquid soap, which makes the paint dry smoother on the foil. They asked for glitter to add onto their shiny paintings!



Then, they came up with their own idea of what they wanted to do. We have done this project in the past, which is tissue painting. You put a piece of tissue onto the paper, brush water onto it and the color from the tissue bleeds onto the paper, which makes a very pretty effect.

It is so exciting to see the kids initiate art projects with their own imagination! 



LITTLE ARTISTS

It's so famtastic to see the children's creativity and concentration flow when they are already so familiar with art materials. This week, we made playdough and each child has its own way of working with it, and the better they know the material, the better they can manipulate it and make it work for what they want to achieve. The kids can work with this flexible material for a really long time.

Then, we moved on to watercolors and also there, the progress can be seen. The kids know how much water they want to use to achieve a specific tone and how they want their drawings to look like. They also used the pastels I introduced them to last week, because they mix beautifully with watercolors. It was a very artistic session this week!