Mother's Day (or Valentine's Day) Process Art - Hearts A-Peel!

This was a two-day project that involved several types of hand work and the use of a variety of materials by the lambies. They were extremely engaged in all of the steps and the results are lovely - as usual! This would be a great Mother's Day project or could be used next year for a Valentine's gift.

Bubble-Wrap Printing + Shapes = A Lambie Art-Fest!

OMGoodness I just love these finished pieces! Even though this art activity was all about process, I am floored by how beautiful and different each of the lambies final pieces came out!  I would be into framing and hanging up each and every one of these lovelies in my home - they are so cheerful and fun to look at!

Toddlers Wuv Twains!

A while back (I am in the process of catching up on my posts), the Lambies were learning about trains and spending lots of time playing trains during play time. Mrs. Alma asked me if I could plan an art lesson around trains and so I started by reading this book to the lambies:

Our local library had this book in the oversized version which is always really fun for the little ones. While we read the book together we talked about the shapes of the train cars and the wheels.

Lambies "Plant" Mini-Gardens

Spring is in high gear this week at the Lambies, so I decided to provide the materials for them to plant their own personal mini-gardens!

Spring Has Sprung at the Lambies

Can you all believe it's April already? The lambies have been busy planting flowers and learning about how plants grow. Today we read Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert.

Pink + Hearts = Valentine's Day Art with the Lambies!

Our Lambie V-Day project was a big hit this year! The children got to paint on wood boards, mix red and white paints to make different kinds of pinks, glue on positive and negative space paper hearts, take a photo with colorful flowers, add tissue paper circles, frame their faces with pink yarn, and add details with gold tempera paint. They had a blast using all these materials and exploring their little hearts out!

Music is in the Air! The Lambies Make Instruments

November was "music month" at the Lambies. I found two great instrument projects online that I was inspired by and decided to do with the lambies. The first one was jingle bell sticks:

Triangles Galore!

Triangles are our shape this month, so I supplied the lambies with triangles in a variety of paper types, sizes, and colors. We had tissue paper triangles, construction paper triangles, and tag board triangles. I sorted them into color families (pink/purple/red, red/orange/yellow, blue/green) and paired them with one color of paint and some white glue. The lambies know what to do by now - they just go for it!

Holy Shades of Red Batman, These Paintings Are Stunning!

Okay, seriously? I don't think I could make a better artwork than this one if I tried. This was made by a 4-year-old! I can't even stand how beautiful it and all of the other paintings the lambies made this morning are!

Focus on Red

So focused, I love it!

  

Well, another school year has started and I had my first preschool art class of the year this morning. This month's focus at the "lambies" is the color red and circles - a fact that just happen to be a coincidence when planning my process art activity for today - a happy coincidence, that is!

Rainbows! (Who Doesn't Love 'Em?)

Really, who doesn't love rainbows? I've taught kids of all ages and they always love rainbows (and unicorns?)!

Gigantic, Beautiful, Messy Pastel Flowers!

So before the huge rainy season this year we had our rainforest mural up in the backyard at the lambies. I just had to have them add big beautiful and colorful flowers to this beauty!

Process Paintings are Beautiful!

Once again I am humbled by the exploratory and adventurous art-making attitudes of the lambies. This week I wanted to give them another chance just to play with color and different painting tools.

The Lambies Paint Jack-O-Lanterns, Lambie-Style

What a super-fun Halloween we had on all counts this year! At the Lambies we had lots of process-art fun making free-form jack-o-lanterns. 

Sloths + Lambies = Too Much Cuteness

Mrs Alma kept asking me if I would do "sloths" with the lambies. Once those snakes were done she absolutely insisted - she's got a thing for sloths! I do too, they really are so adorable. 

Lambs Love Snakes?!

Who knew that the lambies would love to decorate snakes? Not me! I wanted to add to our rainforest themed mural, the current state of which is this: (which by the way really brightens up that brick wall!)

Fun & Sparkly Flowers

My plan was to have the lambies make flowers for our rainforest mural, but after they spent so much time making these sparkly beauties they asked me if they were going to be able to take these home… How could I say no? Of course they became attached to these lovelies so I had to let them enjoy their sparkly goodness on their own turf. 

Painting with Nature's Paintbrushes

Here at the Lambies we paint with all sorts of different things. On this day back in June we painted with nature's brushes. 

Big Leaves Equal Big Fun

This year the focus at the lambies is the rainforest. I hadn't been there for a month because Mrs. Alma wanted some time to get the school prepped for the upcoming school year. I couldn't believe my eyes at all the beautiful additions to the place! Leave it to me though to forget to take pictures. I'll take some next week so you can see how lovely it looks.

Another Process Art Painting Day

Those little ones have pretty short attention spans - shocking, right? Sometimes I like to keep their interest by having several short steps in a project that they move through in one session to create an artwork. These days can be either a big disaster - key kids running around like slippery little ants avoiding any semblance of focus - or in this case they can really buckle down and keep their attention focused on the short little tasks at hand. The best part, IMHO, is that they are so focused on each step that the end result is a big surprise not only to me but to them as well!