Turning Children's Art into Holiday Gift Wrap

In our classroom we focus mainly on process-based art. Children are invited to create with open-ended materials. A painting experience that children enjoy involves stamping holiday cookie cutters using festive acrylic paint.

 

When the paintings are dry they are rolled and tied using a sparkly pipe cleaner. A tag is attached inviting families to repurpose the art as holiday gift wrap for a special loved one. A copy of the letter is available for printing here: Gift Wrap Art Letter to Families

 

Doesn't this present look so beautiful with the special wrap? 

Different Number Fonts

It's always interesting to see how children innovate math materials. This week we provided pages with the numbers 1 to 10 written in interesting fonts. We offered each child a dabber and two dice and encouraged them to create their own games.

Observing before interjecting allowed me to notice the amazing math repertoire children brought to their experiences as they manipulated the dice, examined the paper, made connections between the different representations of the numbers, and created their own games.

 

 

Click here for a copy of the number pages to use in your classroom! 

Plunger Painting!

So silly and so much fun! Yep...those are brand new, clean toilet plungers. 

This process-based art definitely brought a smile to our face on this dreary day! The results  are pretty stunning too!

Bubble Prints

A favourite, fun activity to explore colour mixing and print making!

Use an individual straw to blow big bubbles!

When the bubbles are big enough stamp your paper. 

Lift to reveal your print! Repeat with all the bubbles to mix colours too!

Recycled Tube Prints

Eco marble stamping with recycled tubes! The children were invited to explore and create with different colours of paint. 

The result? Gorgeous marbled paintings!