Outdoor Creative Projects

I did two outdoor projects for preschoolers.  One is called, "Tree Rubbing," the children took a piece of paper and a crayon outside and found a tree.  They put the paper on the tree and rubbed the crayon on the paper.  The children had a blast with t his art project.  they loved using the tree as art and using a different texture other that just a crayon and paper.  Another project I did with the children was making bird feeders.  We used cheerios and pipe cleaners. The children put the cheerios on the pipe cleaners and then made a shape and then we hung the bird feeders outside.  The children also enjoyed doing this project.  They had fun putting the cheerios on and eating some after they were finished;)

Creative Physical Movement

Two physical activity that I did with the three year olds was with a cup and a ball and the second activity was with tape.  The first activity I had the three year olds put the soft ball size ball in the small measuring cup and let the walk to balance the ball. Some of the children had a hard time balancing it but there were a few ghat did a great job with it. The children enjoyed the activity and once they got a hang of it, yhey wanted tobdo it over and over. The second activiy, I put five pieces of tape down, vertically with space in between and let the children jump in between the lines. The childrenreally enjoyed this. I also let the walk on yhe lines to see if they could stay on them. Most of the children did pretty well.

Sensory Play

For sensory play I chose to do a project that involves a sandwich bag, jel,  blue dye, with tape. I had three, three year olds, (that my mom baby sits) put jel inside the sandwich bag with a spoon. Then the blue dye and different objects in it. After they were finished, I sealed it up with duct tape, then let the children lay with it. They loved squishing the jel around ans also finding the objects. the second project we did, was with a pan and rubber bands . The bands were around the pan and the children could hit the banda like a guitar or harp.