Peggy Hazelwood says
Get a few of the inexpensive plastic bottles of acrylic paint and some plastic paint trays and paintbrushes. Tape down construction paper to a protected table and let the kids paint.
They can draw a picture first or paint freehand. Encourage them to tell you what they are painting and to add more to the painting. Acrylic paint cleans up easily, dries quickly, and seems to be more fun than watercolors.
faemom says
There are a lot of things they can do. Using clear contact paper you can make all kinds of no-glue collages with tissue paper, wrapping paper, or nature items. You can seal the collage with another layer of contact paper. You can make animals out of cardboard egg cartons like a spider, caterpillar, or a turtle. Mine likes to color coffee filters with markers and then paint them with water to make a cool tie-dye effect. I hope that helps some.
JeanMeriam says
My preschooler loves pipe cleaners. We sit together and create each other jewelery, flowers, biuquets of flowers, animals and spiders. Paper plate masks are always fun. You can make ghosts by wadding kleenex so there is a ball at one end and the other left flowing with a piece of string tied under the ball (head) to keep it in place. We also like to come up with unusual snacks. I once had a group of little boys go wild over carrots sticks in a cone. Just a few ideas.
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