Kids, parents, and teachers all love seeing the progress made from the beginning of the school year to the end of the school year. This fun self-portrait art project is a great way to see each student’s progress, plus parents get a cute and heartwarming keepsake! Materials Needed: Sharpies Card Stock Canvases Paint (Acrylic or Tempra) Brushes Mod Podge or…
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Earth Day Process Art Project
Your class will get to hold the whole world (and work those fine motor skills) in their hands with this fun Earth Day process art project! Earth Day Art Project Materials Needed: Eyedroppers Blue and Green liquid watercolor, paint, or food coloring coffee filters pans or trays (to catch the drips!) Black construction paper or…
Penguins Love Colors
A “Cool” Way to Paint! Penguins Love Colors by Sarah Aspinall explores what happens when six little penguins, tired of living in a world of snowy white, take matters into their own hands and give their Mama a colorful surprise! This book expands preschoolers’ color knowledge by tying each color to a different flower (which also…
Painted Canvas – Gift from Kids
It’s so stressful each year to think of the perfect Christmas gift for kids to make for their families! It has to be kid-made, reasonably priced, easy to create, and be adorable too. So much stress!! No worries, though. This Painted Canvas Christmas Gift that kids can make for their families is amazing. Even…
Pet Rocks
This process art project really rolls with the hot new trend of painted rocks! They’re turning up everywhere, as marketing, as a way to get a message across, or just as a way to pep up a dull spot in a garden. Students can join in the trendy fun with these amazing painted “pet rocks.”…
Magazine Leaf Trees
Ask any kindergarten teacher what their most abused supplies are in their classroom, and one of the top three will always be “glue sticks.” The poor glue sticks get smashed, completely extended, caps left off, and covered in fuzz. It’s not the fault of the children – many of them do not get to practice…
Autumn Leaf Puff Prints
With the rain in the forecast and a cold breeze in the air, it’s time to bring a bit of the beautiful fall colors indoors! How about this beautiful Autumn tree? With a few supplies and three easy steps, this amazing process art activity can brighten up even the gloomiest fall day! Supplies Needed for…
Butterfly Sun Catchers
Spring is in the air, the preschoolers are starting to get restless and you need an art project that requires no special supplies or preparation. Enter these creative butterfly sun catchers! Butterfly Sun Catcher supplies are simple: wax paper colorful tissue paper glue sticks The process is simple, too: Cut the wax paper into butterfly…
Wind & Rain Process Art
We love any art project that is process-based, and can be transformed into something fridge-worthy that we can send home. This Rain & Wind Process Art project is the perfect example. The kids made so many observations about the paint as they worked, so it turned out to be a good science experiment and oral…
Dental Health Art
February is Dental Health month, but this dental health art project is perfect for any time of the year when your students need a little extra reminder about brushing their teeth! Sometimes the simplest projects are the best, right? For this one, we printed a tooth outline (print your own at the bottom of the…