1. Preschool Art Activities
Early Childhood Education
Preschool Art Activities
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2. Bellwork
Answer the following question:
Why is it important to offer process-orientated art to preschoolers?
Write down your answer on a piece of paper or slate.
Share your answer with your partner.
Be prepared to share with the class if called on.
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3. Objectives Define terminology
Describe developmentally appropriate preschool art activities.
Explain what preschoolers learn through process-focused art.
List art equipment and materials for preschool art center.
Design developmentally appropriate art activities for preschoolers.
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4. Terminology Preschool: children ages 3-5 years old
Learning Center: activity area or section of a room which is arranged by function or curriculum area. Learning centers provide opportunity for children to work at own interest level and at their own pace.
Collage: a selection of materials mounted on a flat service
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5. What can preschoolers do?
Cut with scissors
Print some large letters
Match shapes, colors and patterns
Draw people and faces with some detail
More likely to share than toddlers
More controlled manipulation of tools such as crayons, markers, etc.
Naming artwork
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6. Art Experiences for Preschoolers
Remember - Provide open-ended, creative art experiences!
Easel painting with a variety of paints and paintbrushes
Watercolor painting
Exploring and creating with clay
Painting with unusual tools like toothbrushes, paint rollers, potato mashers, etc.
Printing and stamping
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7. Art Experiences Cont. Stringing beads independently and creatively
Weaving cloth, yarn, or paper
Drawing with pencils, art pens, various sizes of markers, or crayons
Play dough sculptures
Making collages using tissue paper, various sizes of paper, glue, paste, glue sticks, scissors, and recycled materials
Unique art experiences with squirt bottles, or spray bottles, etc.
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8. What preschoolers do and learn through process-focused art?
Social and emotional
Children relax, focus, feel successful, and can express their feelings
Language and literacy
Children may choose to discuss their art and add print to it (on their own or by dictating to a teacher)
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9. What preschoolers do and learn through process-focused art?
Cognitive
Children compare, predict, plan, and problem solve
Physical
Children use small motor skills to paint, write, glue, use clay, and make collages
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10. The Art Center An developmentally appropriate art center:
Offers a wide variety of materials and independent access to these
Provides children with opportunity to solve problems and exchange ideas with peers
Allows children to work at their own interest level and pace
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11. The Art Center Essentials
Furniture:
storage shelf, table and chairs, easel
Materials to support learning:
Different size paint brushes and other painting tools
Scissors, stapler
Smocks
Drying rack
Play dough tools
Consumables:
Paint, all colors, watercolors
Paper, all colors, textures, and sizes
Clay, play dough
Liquid glue, glue sticks, paste
Crayons, markers, chalk, colored pencils
Tape
All materials Non-toxic!
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12. Your Turn!
Design a developmentally appropriate art lesson plan using the template provided.
When complete, you will share your lesson with a partner. Partner will give feedback on lesson (how it is DAP).
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13. Closure
Exit Ticket
Write down one open-ended activity for preschoolers. What would preschoolers learn through the activity?
What questions you still have about the learning?
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