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!

Lambies Show Their Thanks with Gratitude Boxes

I wanted to do a project for Thanksgiving but wasn't up for incorporating the traditional food approach this year. There's just something morbid about making turkeys that are eventually oven-bound as a way of celebrating in art class. So after doing a little research and looking in my stash of supplies I decided to have the lambies create "gratitude boxes".

For this lesson, we started out by sitting together in a circle and taking turns saying what we are thankful for. The lambies had so much to say that we went around the circle twice - I love them so much!

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!

October is Orange

So our colors for this month of October are orange and black, and our shape is the triangle. For the first art class I decided to focus on "orange", and so I made orange-scented, orange-colored homemade playdough for the lambies. I made little oranges out of the dough and added leaves from my orange tree and put them on a pretty serving plate to inspire them, along with a variety of orange colored "tools" for them to use.

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!

Fine Motor Sensory Play + Paint = Gorgeous Fun

Yesterday at the lambies we had a great time! They are still learning about circles and so I brought in an array of circular and other items for them to play with:

• round styrofoam discs
• beads
• pipe cleaners