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Creative Arts
Creative Arts
Learning with Loose Parts
Loose parts are any safe materials found in your home or outside that children can use in creative and open ended ways. Children can use rocks, twigs, leaves, flowers, blocks, beads, rubber bands, bottle caps, materials from your recycling bin or screws sitting in your junk drawer.
Creating with Paper
Children develop their fine motor skills and imagination when they make simple puppets, paper dolls, houses or paper airplanes.
Paper chains.
Playing with Boxes
Open ended and imaginative play is not only fun but also helps children develop their creativity, problem solving and critical thinking skills. Children can transform a simple cardboard box into endless imaginary items - forts, playhouses, rocket ships, castles ...
Click here for some creative play ideas with a cardboard box
Paper airplanes.
This is a fun story about playing with boxes.
Shadow drawing.
Literacy/Fine Motor
Literacy/Fine Motor
ABC: Practice making letters in a fun way:
use your finger to write in shaving cream, salt or sand on a tray or cookie sheet
build letters with play dough
use a stick to write letters in mud or sand
paint letters
paint letters with water on the sidewalk
use sticks, rocks, leaves, or flowers to build letters
make letters from blocks or Lego
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