Open Ended Art ~ Painting with Pinecones

We have a beautiful pine tree in our backyard and had a great time collecting a bucket full of pine cones one day in the fall before it got to cold to play outside.  We recently had a great time painting with some of the dried out pine cones during our Art Group.

This was a fun Open Ended Art project and Sensory Activity.  It was fun to see how each child in the group approached this project.  Some rolled the pine cone, some tapped it on the paper and some didn’t want to do it at all. 

Aunt Christina helping Juliette

Juliette’s Pine Cone Paining

Emily rolled, rubbed and tapped hers all over the paper.

Emily’s Pine Cone Painting

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stART ~ The Turkey Ball

A Story + Art = A Great stART!
Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our book and art project and maybe even share your own too! For an explanation of stART click here.

This week we read The Turkey Ball, by David Steinberg. This is a cute rhyming story about a group of turkeys who spend the night dancing.

As we were reading this book I thought it would be fun for Emily to dress up a turkey for the ball. I tried to find a cute picture of a turkey on the internet, however non of them seemed to work for what I had in mind. Then I saw a picture of a toilet paper tube turkey and new we had to try it out!

Emily painted the toilet paper towel tube with brown paint.

Next, she glued on the face and some wiggly eyes.

Then, she glued on some feathers. This was her favorite part!

Finally, she decorated the turkey for the ball with some sequins and glitter glue.

Emily’s finished turkey is all ready for the Turkey Ball!