My son's former preschool teacher has finally offered me the chance to teach at her family daycare/preschool! I love this place for too many reasons to list here. Suffice it to say that Mrs. Alma provides a loving and supportive environment for her "lambies" and I am honored and humbled to be a part of it!We are going to be doing lots of Process Art and Sensory Play and you'd better believe I will be scouring the blogs to get ideas and inspiration! So far my favorite blog of all for this type of teaching approach is the one by Meri Cherry! She has so much experience working with the little ones and you can tell by her blog she is passionate about providing positive learning experiences for them. Thank you Meri!
Our first foray into this process art thing was to make salt paintings. These kids loved working with the beautiful liquid watercolors and the pipettes to drop that beautiful color on their "practice papers":
Once they got the hang of how the droppers worked they went to town on the gluing, salting, and dropping process. The materials we used were:
- paper towels (for practice papers, can be used later in collages or other projects)
- pipettes
- liquid watercolors
- paint trays
- white glue in squeeze bottles
- regular salt in squeeze bottles
- thick paper plates
The process itself:
- squeeze glue onto plate
- cover glue with salt
- shake excess salt off the plate
- drop color onto the salt and watch the colors run and mix together!
We all had a great time and the children really loved exploring the materials!
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