Arts and Crafts: Book Making (Preschooler – Adult)

Make a Japanese side stitch book with your favorite or handmade paper and use it for sketching, nature journaling, or as a diary.

Preschool Craft: Cardboard Animals

This craft explores color mixing and independent play for preschoolers with paint, cardboard, string and scissors.

Preschool Arts & Crafts: Cardboard Boxes

This was a perfect rainy day activity! By transforming a cardboard box into a rocket ship, I was able to encourage independent and imaginative play while reinforcing written name recognition and process art practice.

Preschool Arts & Crafts: Music

We changed up arts and crafts time this weekend by getting my drums out of storage and the ukelele out of it’s case. Music helps preschoolers flex their creative muscles, exploring and discovering different sounds and their combinations, just like process art explores the different combinations and possibilities of visual materials. There is the added

Preschool Activity: Pipe-cleaner Bracelets (Quiet Time)

Pipe Cleaner Bracelets: This is my favorite “mommy has a headache” activity.

Preschool Activity & Craft: Daily Walks & Pinecone Bird Feeder

Getting outside has been fundamental in staying calm and centered for our family during this unpredictable season.

Process Art: Sidewalk Chalk

Today was all about the process. Art and crafts aren’t meant to be a stressful. Instead they are an opportunity to create, explore, and play. The only material needed for this activity is sidewalk chalk.