Open Ended Art ~ Concentric Circles

The girls love to sit at the table and color or draw with their markers and crayons.  This is actually how they spend a good part of the morning.  They have access to the paper, coloring books, markers and crayons at all times.  I store them in the bottom of the hutch in the dining room right next to the table. 

One day when I walked over to the table to see what they were up to Emily had started drawing a large circle on her paper.

When she noticed me she said “Look, I am going to keep making circles with all of the markers!”

She did exactly that, marker after marker, circle after circle she drew until it was all colored in.

Look how pretty and she did it all on her own and had so much fun doing it too!

 

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Sorting Fun ~ Circles and Triangles

Cut and Paste Circle and Triangle Picture Sort

Since the Plant and Animal Picture Sort went so well I couldn’t wait to make another one for Emily.  We have been doing a shape study with our Art Group so I thought it would be fun to make a shape picture sort for Emily.  I found pictures of every day objects that were either shaped like a circle or triangle for this activity.

First, I printed out the  Circle and Triangle Pictures(click to download the one I made) and then Emily got to work cutting each one out.  As she was working on it we talked about each picture.  Emily was familiar with all of the pictures.  It is fun to see how excited she gets when she sees things that she likes in these activities.

After Emily cut the pictures out she placed them on the construction paper that I labeled for her and got to work gluing them down.

  Emily’s Finished Project!

 

I am planning on make more of these since they are great cutting and sorting practice and Emily really enjoys doing them. 

What Cut and Paste Picture Sort should I make next???  Leave your ideas in the comments and you just may find in on my next post!!!

Muffin Tin Monday

Circles Everywhere!!

This weeks theme for Muffin Tin Monday was Choose Your Own Theme. Since we did a fun Circle Collage this morning I thought it would be fun to make CIRCLES our theme for today's lunch too!

Emily's Muffin Tin Lunch

Top Row: Mini Circle Ravioli with butter and cheese, Popcorn Chicken (I just discovered these from our butcher and am SOOOO excited), Circle Apples and Bananas

Bottom Row: Mini Circle Ravioli with butter and cheese, BBQ sauce, Circle Apples and Bananas

Emily devoured all the circles and asked for more!!

Hip Hip Hooray for Muffin Tin Monday!!!

Circle Collage and Paper Towel Roll Painting

Emily's Circle Collage

I wanted to do some paper towel roll printing with Emily today and it turned into a whole circle collage! Emily had a lot of fun using the different materials to collage with. She loves gluing and stickers and she especially LOVES paint.

For the collage I gave Emily construction paper circles that I cut out in different sizes and colors, colored circle lables, and white reinforcements. When she was finished with that part she did the paper towel printing with yellow and blue paint.

Emily gluing on construction paper circles

Emily added colored sticker labels and reinforcements to the collage.


For the final step Emily dipped a cut paper towel roll into paint...

...and made circle prints with it!

While Emily was working on this project we talked about the different sizes and colors of the circles. She liked doing the small circles the best. Since I gave her yellow and blue paint we also talked about how it turned into green when she was painting with it.

When we were all finished I asked he what her favorite part was and her answer was, "All of it!"

More circle fun is planned for Lunch...I can't wait :0)