Easel activities for preschool

Fun and creative easel activity that promotes fine motor and literacy development.

Painting on foil is an easy process art activity kids will love! Foil painting is a shiny, shimmery, awesome alternative to painting on paper!

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We just love playing and creating on a Sticky Easel. You can see how to make one here, they are so simple and yet so much fun! Today I set up a quick Invitation to Play with the sticky easel and ribbons and string. Ages: 2-6+ (M is 3 years old here. See Tips at the bottom to simplify or extend to meet the needs of your child) Materials: Contact paper/Sticky-back plastic (the stuff you cover books with), sticky tape, string, ribbon, wool etc. I provided the string/ribbon in different lengths…

Making the rounds in social networking has been this wonderful post titled, "This is What Happens when you Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids." from Colossal. This post shares the wonderful artwork called, "The Obliteration Room." If you haven't taken a look at their sticker dot covered white room

All year we’ve been having fun with colors, but these past few weeks we had a fun pom pom center! This included a pompom drop and a place to sort the pompoms by color. I came across some great ideas for pompom drops on Pinterest, but this was just a quick throw-together. I would love to attach these to wood instead of just paper! Anyway, I began with cardboard tubes (I’m such a hoarder) and painted them 6 different colors using 2-3 coats of regular tempera paint. Then I attached them with…

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This toddler easel activity builds fine motor skills while paint is rolled up and down the vertical surface. Easy and fun!

easel painting preschool art: Painting develops literacy skills. Preschoolers make marks on a page to show their ideas or thoughts. They begin to understand how symbols can stand for other things–this is a house and this is me.