penguins making tulips stamping

Tulips stamping

Today we introduced spring by having an art activity of tulips. We used forks, our finger and different spring colors. We dipped the fork into tulips color and stamped it on a card, and later dipped our finger into green paint to make the stem and leaves of the tulips.

It turned out to be very pretty and a perfect gift for our parents.

Purpose

Introduce spring

Develop their fine motor skills

Lpfö 98 Revised 2010

• Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions,thoughts and experiences in many different forms.
• Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.

Ducklings: Friendship Color Mixing

We had Circle Time in the Gym. We introduced two new jolly phonics sounds “W” and “X”. We counted who was present with the Ducklings Family Tree by putting apples flashcards on the tree with the children’s pictures. Later on, we introduced the meaning of “Friends”, who we love to spend time with, to help as well as to cooperate with. Then we had an art activity called “Friendship color mixing”: every two children made a pair and chose a color to paint their hand with. They mixed the color with their friend’s color on the hand to create a new one. Finally they used the new color to create hand prints on a big piece of white paper. All the children had a lot of fun while playing and helping each other as well as learning about the color theory.

Purposes:

To develop their creativity skills

To develop their early science skills

To develop their ability to work in group

Lpfö:

Develop their ability to build, create and construct using different techniques, materials and tools.

Develop their curiosity and enjoyment, as well as their ability to play and learn.

Ducklings: Making Face Art Crafts with Different Emotions

We reviewed the emotions we learned last week with flashcards and then the children were divided into two groups doing an art activity about emotions. The children were given round colored construction paper to represent the faces and also googly eyes, pipe cleaners  and colorful stickers as five senses on the face. The children made different facial emotions with the help of the teachers like happy, sad, scared, sick and surprised faces.

Purpose:

To develop their fine motor skills.

To learn about different senses on their faces (IPC All About Me: My Body)

To develop their early knowledge on emotions and emotion management.

The Lpfö we have been working wtih:

Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

Ducklings Eyes Art Crafts

We introduced eyes to the children and different colors of eyes everyone in the classroom has. Then the children were given different colors of construction paper in eyes’ and eyeballs shapes so that the children used the glue sticks to paste them together as an eye. The children found this activity very interesting and very colorful, and a lot of the children were very proud to show the eye craft when they were done to the teachers and their friends and used the phrase to say: “my eye”. Material used: colored construction paper and glue sticks.

The Lpfö we have been working on:

To develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music,dance and drama.

Ducklings Marking Art: Body Tracing Activity

This week we are so excited to start our first art activity for the new term! We had done an art activity about “My Body” which is called body tracing. This is a part of our IPC Unit “All about me”-- my body. We pasted two big pieces of white butcher paper that suit the children’s body and chose two children and let them lie down. Then the teacher traced the children’s body with a marker. Later on, all the children decorated the portraits as desired with  crayons, felt, fabric scraps or decorative papers, etc.  They really enjoyed the activity and had a lot of fun. We will pick two children per week to lie down and have their body traced for all the ducklings children to decorate!  

The Lpfö we have been working on:

Develop their motor skills.

Develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

Ducklings: Burger Art Craft

Last week our food of the week is "beef and burger". We made an art craft of a big beef burger with vegetables inside as a group work. The children were given a chance to review what we have learned about vegetables as well as connecting the knowledge they’ve already learned to the new ones. The children’s hand and eye coordination and fine motor skills were trained while they were using the glue sticks, pipe cleaners, soft colored paper, yarn, fabrics, construction paper in different shapes, pasta and spaghettis.

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

Ducklings: Cabbage art craft

We introduced the vegetable cabbages by showing flashcards, videos and in real. We did an art activity of drawing a nature picture with cabbages leaves, sponges, and water colors as the background. The children enjoyed using the sponges as well as using their bare hands to paint colors on the construction paper, and later they put cabbage leaves into red color to make stamp in trees’ shape which were pasted on the construction paper later on as a nature picture with blue sky and green grass as background.

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

Ducklings, Art: Making a Funny Potato Face

As we introduced the vegetable potato by learning a new song: “one potato, two potatoes”, we encouraged the children right after that to make a potato face according to the image of a real potato. The children were given pipe cleaners, soft paper, googly eyes, filt and a big piece of brown paper. Then we did an art activity by decorating with all these different materials, and it finally became a big funny potato face. The children enjoyed this activity!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

Ducklings Art: Making Circles with Cucumber Pieces and Green Water Color

We introduced cucumber by showing flashcards and videos last monday, and listened to the new cucumber song. For the art activity we did cucumber and carrot stamping painting with cucumber and carrot pieces. We learned the colors orange and green and the children used both orange and green water colors to paint on a piece of hard paper by stamping big and small circles with the vegetables. The children loved touching the vegetables and colors as well as drawing with them!

We have been working on the following Lpfö goals:

To develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

To develop their motor skills.

To develop their curiosity as well as the ability to play and learn.

Ducklings: Art Exhibition

Last Wednesday we had our Market Day in the preschool. We gathered a lot of second- hand toys and clothes together and sold them to raise money for our summer party. At the same time, we had exhibited our duckling children's art crafts in the cozy corner. As we have been developing our IPC Theme wild animals and water animals, we had made the art craft bear masks, dough snakes, and sea turtles. Moreover, we had also exhibited the Chinese calligraphy we wrote for the Chinese goat year. The children were very creative as well and each of them designed their our jewelry: necklace and bracelets. We had also baked berry muffins together and offered a Fika in the afternoon together with the parents.

We have been working on the following Lpfö:

To develop their creative abilities and the ability to convey impressions, thoughts and experiences in many different forms, such as play, pictures, song and music, dance and drama.

To develop their sense of participation in their own culture and develop a feeling and respect for other cultures.

To develop their ability to build, create and construct using different techniques, materials and tools.