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The MAGIC of Resistance🖌

Place a watercolor paper on a piece of cardboard. Let the child wrap rubber bands around the paper/cardboard. Next, let the child paint the entire paper. Let dry. Remove rubber bands to reveal the wonder of resistance. Another interesting note is to see where the pigment pooled. These will be the areas of deeper pigment. 🙌 Process Art honors each child and their individual expression. Remember, the heart of the journey is the making and creating! ❤️ #teaching #teach #art #activity

a child's hand is painting the letters on a paper plate with cookies and marshmallows

Salt Activities

Mark Making Activities

Fine Motor Activities

✏️ Salt as a mark-making tool!

Mark making is an important process in the creative expression of the young child. It’s interesting to provide more tactic opportunities for making marks like this salt tray. Sometimes children need alternative ways to be inspired to make marks. Making marks in sand or salt provides kinesthetic feedback. #activity #kindergarden #earlychildhood #kids #play #finemotor #finemotordevelopment #finemotoractivities #preschool #preschoolteacher #teacher #classroom #playbased #earlyyears

several tubes are wrapped in colored paper and tied together with twine to make a tube sculpture

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Tube Sculptures

THE INVITATION: This is one of those projects that can be ever-changing. It can also become a homemade tinker set. Children love to construct and deconstruct. This project is a perfect way to offer an art form that they can change and alter as they wish. 💡For children under three years old, cut the tubes in half or thirds. #activity #preschoolactivities #kindergartenactivities #teacher #play #prek #preschool #playbased #childled #processart #artactivity #finemotordevelopment #finemotor

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Flower Paints 🌺

Flower Petals and crushed flowers make a beautiful palette of choices for creating paint. There's something so special about making paints with flowers. 💡 Ideas for older children: Invite the children to measure and record their paint recipes. #activity #teacher #preschool #finemotor #kindergarten #prek #play #preschoolteacher #preschoolactivity #elementary #iteach #play #childhood #earlyyears #earlychildhoodeducation #ece #playbased #artactivity #paint #painting #earlyyearsactivity

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Preschool Mark Making

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🖍 Creative Mark Making!

Mark-making is a dynamic play process. A roll of masking tape is all you need to create wild marks! Tape crayons or markers on the child’s fingers. Let the child guide you. One crayon? Two? And then let them explore the sensation of making marks with taped-on crayons. Let the children lead you in other wild-designed mark-making ideas! Play! #markmaking #finemotor #prek #teacher #teaching #kindergarten #activity #earlyyears #earlychildhoodeducation #preschool #play #childhood

a child is painting on an ice block with watercolors

🧊 Block Ice Painting 🎨

Try this refreshing painting idea on a hot summer afternoon! — Simply freeze water in a plastic container. — Pop out the frozen water onto a tray or into a shallow plastic tub. — Let the children paint it! Painting on different surfaces was a great takeaway from the Paint Play Lab in our Free to Play Summit this year. What other surface ideas do you have to paint on? #summerideas #playideas #earlychildhood #play #teacher #teaching #preschool #toddler #activity #artactivity #paint #

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Through Nature Weaving

🍃 Through Nature Weaving 🍂 Me, oh my - this beautiful play invitation speaks to my heart! 💕 1. Visit a beautiful natural setting with your group. 2. Invite children to collect special items they find around. 3. When back to the classroom, use those special items as “thread” to weave the looms

A play invitation where ten pieces of different colored construction paper were cut and hung on a flat piece of cardboard with clothes pins. On each color is a matching piece found from nature. On dark green piece of construction paper is a green leaf, on the light green piece of construction paper is a light green leaf, on the baby blue piece of paper is a small bundle of baby blue flowers, on the purple piece of construction paper is a small bundle of purple flowers and so on. Provocations Kindergarten, Reggio Activities, Nature Based Classroom, Camping Scavenger Hunt, Nature Based Preschool, Nature Walk Scavenger Hunt, Vip Invitation, Waldorf Classroom

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Nature Play Invitation!

Thank you to mbsactivityroom for allow us to share this magic! By cutting ten pieces of paper and pinning them on a piece of cardboard, a VIP invitation to explore the wonder of the world around us is born. Imagine how minds expand as they witness firsthand the colorful world around us. Social and cognitive skills form as children work together to find the matching pieces of this puzzle in the abundance of nature! This is connected and engaged learning at its finest.

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Mud Paint

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To The Wonder

Mud Paint

Thank you to @little_mini_lighthouse_ for sharing this magical activity with us! 🌈 Mixing mud and paint you can create this invitation to the wonder of nature, color, and process art! 🌟 Wonder Tip: To make homemade paint, blend 1/2 cup of flour with 1/2 cup of salt. Add 1/2 cup of water… and mix until smooth. Divide it up into three sandwich bags and add a few drops of liquid watercolor or food coloring to each bag. #activity #outdoorclassroom #nature #natureart #activities

Image shows a paper cut outs of printed images of different parts of the face. Two different eyes from different people, a nose, and a mouth, all placed on top of a black sheet of construction paper. Inquiry Learning, Face Collage, Learning Framework, Fine Motor Skills Activities, Motor Skills Activities, Charter School

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Face Collage

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Face Collage

Possible Threads of Inquiry: How will a child reinterpret faces? How do children perceive the parts that compound a face? How can you represent parts of a face? What is the use of the parts of the face? What happens when one part of the face isn't working? How can you identify your own face? What details can you identify in faces? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Include photos of the children and faces that are familiar to them for a deep connection to the materials and the invitation!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

a person using a knife to cut something in a wooden bowl on top of a counter

Crushed Chalk Paint

What You'll need: Chalk, Mortar & Pestle, water, pipettes, jars/cups, spoons, paint brushes, paper, and trays or Cookie Sheets. This activity offers many experiences for a child to connect with materials. The process of crushing the chalk, observing how the chalk's properties change. Mixing the chalk with water, and exploring textures. A simple activity, yet one where the child gets to truly lead in the learning! Source: Wonder Art Workshop by Sally Haughey

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Where The Magic Happens

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Classroom Setting

The only thing that makes a “perfect” learning space is the spirit of WONDER that is intended to happen inside it. I know that educators take pride in their learning spaces. On social media, you are hard-pressed to find a photo of a classroom that isn't “aesthetically pleasing.” I get it! But aesthetics should NOT be the intention behind a classroom set up. 🌟 Perfection is NOT where the magic happens. #classroominspiration #teaching #teacher #teachertruth #classroomaesthetic⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

A graphic that has pastel brush stokes as the background design. The quotes reads: If you watch children in play, from birth moving through early childhood, interest driven play develops them into full human beings. The quote is by Sally Haughey, the CEO of Fairy Dust Teaching Family Preschool, Early Childhood Quotes, Play Quotes, Childhood Quotes, Spencer Family, Classroom Quotes

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Play is the most powerful curriculum.

I have been deeply inspired by many brilliant minds and Methods of Education. When you boil it all down, its play. Play and relationships are the way we can facilitate a learning experience that allows a child to truly unlock his or her potential. #teacherquotes #earlychildhood #ece #earlyyears #playbased

there are many different colored crayons in the bowl on the wooden table next to each other

Ice Marbles

This is SUCH a simple and fun way to still connect with the materials nature provides to us, even in the colder seasons.🧣 #activity #winterplay #playbased #outdoorsactivity #kindergarten #teachingideas #parenting #parentinghacks #teachinghacks #childart #finemotorskills #finemotoractivity #finemotorplay #teachersfollowteachers #actividadsensorial #actividadesparaniños #éducation

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Classroom Intention

Thank you to the “Big Ideas Classroom” for allowing us to share your magic! ✨ What do you see when you look at this picture? I see intention. The intention to create a classroom environment that fosters learning through PLAY. #classroomideas #classroominspiration #teachers #earlyyears #earlychildhoodeducation #classrooms #learningspaces #teach #playbased #playmatters #defendthewonder #classroomdecor #classroomsetup # teacherinspiration