Your preschool child is a small person who needs plenty of interesting activities. This includes everything from going on nature walks to playing in the park to enjoying reading time and taking part in art activities. Art serves as an excellent way to hone fine motor abilities as well as allowing your child to express emotions. Here are some art projects for kids, specifically preschool-age children.
When it comes to art, it is wise to allow children to explore a variety of mediums. One fun option is collage. Take your child on a nature walk and have them collect twigs, leaves, rocks and pebbles. Then glue the items down on a piece of construction paper. Talk about the different textures of each of the items, such as the smoothness of a pebble or the fuzzy feeling you get when you touch some of the leaves.
Other types of collages include tear art projects. These are fun ways to celebrate various seasons or holidays, and they help children work on those fine motor skills. For example, a fun autumn or Halloween project would be to create a tear-art pumpkin. Take a large piece of paper and trace the shape of a pumpkin. Give the child pieces of orange paper, perhaps a few different shades, and have them tear the paper and then glue it inside the shape. You can add a stem and have them glue on triangle eyes and a triangle nose. Consider doing the same with a Valentine Heart, a Christmas tree or a star and maybe a big flower to celebrate spring.
One interesting endeavor would be to have your children create a large mural on a long sheet of paper. While this is fun, sometimes you will see that children tend to leave a good deal of the paper blank, unsure how to fill in every bit. A fun option instead would be to head online to ArtProjectsForKids.org and purchase and print one of their downloadable murals. These are better suited to older preschoolers, around 4 or 5 years of age. It's also a fun project if you have several children to keep them occupied as each person can tackle part of the mural.
There are dozens of subject choices for the murals. You might want to consider a mural copying a famous painting, such as Starry Night by Van Gogh or perhaps even the Mona Lisa. Other choices, that small children will adore including large murals of animals such as a butterfly, elephant or a dinosaur. The murals come in several pages and you simply print them out, have your children color them in and then put them back in order. You can even glue them down to a board or canvas and display the mural as a true work of art.
It's also fun to combine an educational theme with art. One option might include learning about the ocean. You can read books about the ocean, visit your local aquarium, participate in an ocean clean-up day and also create works of ocean art, such as a handprint crab painting or a paper plate turtle. Another fun theme might revolve around different types of vehicles. Head to a car museum, visit the local fire station and, again read some books about planes, trains and automobiles. Then create some crafts or drawings of boats, cars, trucks and other vehicles.
When it comes to art, it is wise to allow children to explore a variety of mediums. One fun option is collage. Take your child on a nature walk and have them collect twigs, leaves, rocks and pebbles. Then glue the items down on a piece of construction paper. Talk about the different textures of each of the items, such as the smoothness of a pebble or the fuzzy feeling you get when you touch some of the leaves.
Other types of collages include tear art projects. These are fun ways to celebrate various seasons or holidays, and they help children work on those fine motor skills. For example, a fun autumn or Halloween project would be to create a tear-art pumpkin. Take a large piece of paper and trace the shape of a pumpkin. Give the child pieces of orange paper, perhaps a few different shades, and have them tear the paper and then glue it inside the shape. You can add a stem and have them glue on triangle eyes and a triangle nose. Consider doing the same with a Valentine Heart, a Christmas tree or a star and maybe a big flower to celebrate spring.
One interesting endeavor would be to have your children create a large mural on a long sheet of paper. While this is fun, sometimes you will see that children tend to leave a good deal of the paper blank, unsure how to fill in every bit. A fun option instead would be to head online to ArtProjectsForKids.org and purchase and print one of their downloadable murals. These are better suited to older preschoolers, around 4 or 5 years of age. It's also a fun project if you have several children to keep them occupied as each person can tackle part of the mural.
There are dozens of subject choices for the murals. You might want to consider a mural copying a famous painting, such as Starry Night by Van Gogh or perhaps even the Mona Lisa. Other choices, that small children will adore including large murals of animals such as a butterfly, elephant or a dinosaur. The murals come in several pages and you simply print them out, have your children color them in and then put them back in order. You can even glue them down to a board or canvas and display the mural as a true work of art.
It's also fun to combine an educational theme with art. One option might include learning about the ocean. You can read books about the ocean, visit your local aquarium, participate in an ocean clean-up day and also create works of ocean art, such as a handprint crab painting or a paper plate turtle. Another fun theme might revolve around different types of vehicles. Head to a car museum, visit the local fire station and, again read some books about planes, trains and automobiles. Then create some crafts or drawings of boats, cars, trucks and other vehicles.
About the Author:
Kate Halfey likes blogging about art projects. For more information about cool art projects or to discover art projects like a Kandinsky circle painting, please check out the ArtProjectsForKids.org site now.
