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UPDATE: The 2020 calendar template has been posted at the bottom of this post. Note: Please understand that this calendar is NOT editable. I also cannot accommodate every request for various pages, languages and changes. However, it is free. I will consider your requests on the next go around! Thanks for understanding. I started this calendar…
Starry Night by Van Gogh is one of our favorites from Art Studio’s Art in the Netherlands and Spain lessons from Mother Goose Time. The kids love this piece of art and always remember its name. We used pipe cleaners shaped into swirls to make stamped prints on our Starry Night Door Hanger crafts. A…
This week we explored texture and Monet’s Haystacks. It’s not my favorite series of Monet paintings, but we had fun with it in preschool from creating textured haystacks art, textured letters and looking for farm animals hiding in the hay. Mother Goose Time’s Art Studio has been exciting this summer. See the end of this…
Two of my favorite things about Mother Goose Time are the Forest Friends books and the Community Challenges in each lesson. Our community collage wasn’t actually a lesson plan suggestion but it was inspired by the Forest Friends book called A Community Collage A Story About Creativity. Community Collage A Community Collage is a story…
We’re continuing to explore Art in France in week two of Mother Goose Time’s Art Studio. First, we made water lily pond art inspired by Claude Monet. Now we’re looking at Monet’s Flowers. Claude Monet used specific color palettes and brush strokes to depict light and shapes. Monet & Flowers To paint Monet’s Flowers, we…
The topic of Lesson 4 of Mother Goose Time’s Art Studio is Fresco & Mural. A fresco is a painting done on a wet plaster wall. Fresco is the Italian word for “fresh” because artists painted on freshly plastered walls. A mural is a large painting on any type of wall or ceiling, indoors or…
Up for some messy sensory summer play? Try structure building with pool noodles and shaving cream! It’s messy but totally engaging for all ages. It cleans up easily too so don’t let the mess deter you. The kids will remember the day they played with shaving cream, pool noodles and rinsed off in the sprinkler….
As we experience “Art in Italy” in week one of Mother Goose Time’s Art Studio, we learned about how buildings and structures are designed and planned through play and creative architecture activities for preschoolers. An architect decides the shape, size and what the structure is made out of. Children are block building architects! The Colosseum…
Continuing with our Art Studio theme from Mother Goose Time, we explored an art technique along with some alphabet work. Magic Letters is a watercolor painting literacy activity idea that really captured my group’s attention. Mother Goose Time incorporates all the basic concepts in each theme, integrating them in fun playful ways that engage learners….
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