What art projects/activities do you do with your DC?

quesarah

So I'm wondering if maybe A is just too young or I'm picking the wrong activities.  I'd love to do some fun art ones with him, but he isn't really interested in sitting still to do them.  So maybe I need some more active ones, so what do you do with your DC?

MommySteph2009

playdough

coloring

gardening

sidewalk chalk

rock collecting

We're about to start painting too, once we get a sheet to protect the floor.

tiki_t

At that age, it was finger painting or wild brush painting outdoors and sidewalk chalk for art. 

tiki_t

Oh yeah, and get washable crayons and let A attack a glass patio door with it. 

NorcalLinds

-painting, chalk outside and on the easel, play dough, painting the cement with water, finger painting, practicing using toddler scissors, crayons, markers, this squishy dot stuff.

something i learned at logans co-op about art, developmentally they can't do a lot. basically a piece of paper and putting one thing on it, like markers/crayons etc. A project that includes glue and putting something on the glue, too much for him. kind of boring if you ask me ;-)

 

futrkingsley

DS has access to art supplies and ready and willing helpers but he's not that interested. He occassionally asks to use my pens when I'm writing a check or something and hten he will go at it on scrap paper.  Around valentines day he mastered his scissors but hasn't shown a ton of interest in at least a month.  We've had playdoh around but it's not something he asks for just yet.  He has an easel in the main living area with chalk and dry erase markers which he'll use for 5 mintues or so every other day.

If I'm painting he'll paint but he has a very low tolerance for sitting and doing "projects" and I don't push it. I share whatever I'm working on and keep my expectations low.

scrapmama2201

* stickers
* paint (using brushes, cotton balls, cars, leaves/sticks)
* crayons, markers
* glue (fun to add acrylic paint)
* stamps with ink pads

We all love art here...and do something artsy most days. I love it just as much as the boys.

MeggyO

Here are some of my projects that I do with my kinders (a little older, but I think these are universally fun)

1. Sponge paint. Use precut shapes or cut them yourself.

2. Coffee filter art. I use little pipettes with water color, but you could draw on them with water-based markers then spray with water (the colors will run) or you could just fill spray bottles with diluted watercolor.

3. Contact paper art. Get contact paper, fold in half, unfold and take off the film. Then put whatever stuff on that you like--glitter, sequins, tissue paper scraps, etc. Then fold it in half again to seal the sticky surface.

4. Balloon stamping. Blow up a balloon (only half way or so. Or use 3 day old balloons like I did! If they are too full, they will pop). Then put the top of the balloon in tempera paint and stamp it on paper. It gets some really cool textures. 

5. Sandpaper art. This is cool because it's multi-sensory. Cut sheets of sandpaper into quarters. it can be colored sandpaper or plain. Then color on it with either chalk or oil pastels.

I do art EVERY DAY with my students, so I'm always trying to come up with something new and interesting. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. These are some of their favorites.