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Winter Name Art

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Process art is such an important part of our preschool curriculum! When children are painting, cutting, collaging, molding, and drawing their brains are getting smarter and smarter. For many people (parents?!) process art is just not quite cute enough to be fridge-worthy. I get it, really I do. (I’m a mom, too, remember! I don’t need a mountain of 100 fingerpainted papers on my counter.) Fortunately we have the perfect solution: an easy and cute way to turn a great process art project into a gallery piece. Make these winter name art projects!

Winter Name Art PinIsn’t it great when 1 project meets a bunch of objectives?! Look at all of the learning that’s occurring here.

Objectives:

  • Cooperation — Kids share paint, brushes and paper!
  • Color Theory — We put out blue, white and purple paint. They were excited to see all of the different shades of color.
  • Process Art — Foam brushes offer kids the option to stamp, brush, or roll the paint.
  • Gross Motor — Cover a table with paper and let the kids stand, walk and move while they create.
    Paint Wand Close Up

Some of our students need encouragement to participate in art projects. Not this one! They all wanted in on the action.

Winter painting

This is what the art area looked like when they were finished! It was a beautiful winter scene. We could have hung it up on display or cut small pieces for each child to take home.Finished Winter Painting

Instead, we turned the winter process paintings into some gorgeous Winter Name Art. Names are so important to our preschoolers and we love to sneak in name learning any chance we can!

Silhouette Winter Art

I cut 12×12 squares of the dried winter painting to run through my Silhouette Cameo cutter. You could also cut out the letters by hand, but the Cameo makes each letter perfect.

Glue Letter

The next day the students found their letters and glued them onto a piece of 12×12 cardstock.
Charlotte Name Art

We let them use Sharpie markers (They love this!) to write their names on the large paper. These make such a nice keepsake for the parents to remember what their child’s handwriting looked like in preschool.

B Winter Name

Our kids were beaming with pride when they carried their Winter Name Art home. We were beaming with pride at how far they have progressed in terms of writing their names since the beginning of the school year. Amazing!!!

Check out this Resource from my Shop!

Editable Name Practice *Set 1

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These EDITABLE NAME PRACTICE pages will save you TONS of TIME! Our youngest students need lots of practice writing their names. But, it takes time to make individual worksheets. Not anymore! Just type your class list into the editable form, and the worksheets will automatically fill in each child’s name. Print and go!

This set includes 9 different worksheets so that you can customize and differentiate the practice that your children need.

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