Creative Thinking Activities

Creative Thinking
One project that I did with the three year olds was taking cookie cutters (stars, circles, trianlges, etc.) and letting the children trace them with the chalk out on the black top, where the playground is.  Afterwards, the children would say what shapes they made.  The children had fun using the chalk and liked learning what shape they made.  the children were really excited when they finished.
Another project was with lids off of baby food pouches.  I collected two different color lids (green and red) and then made a tic tac toe board with pencils and let the children play tic tac toe with the lids. One child was one color and the other child was the other color.  After explaining to the children that they have to get three of their color in a row (showed them what a row was and how many ways they can play it).  Some of the children got the concept and enjoyed playing, others were not as into it but the children that were had fun trying to get their colors in a row and would get really excited when they won.

Creative Construction Activities

The first creative construction idea that I did with the preschool children was paper pattern snakes.  I let the children pick out whatever color construction paper they wanted for the project.Then, we individually rolled each construction paper and glued each one.  Afterwards, we put string in between the construction papers to make a snake.  the children had fun rolling the construction paper and playing with the snakes. They were rattling and strolling the snake while walking, having a blast!



The second creative idea that I did with the preschool children was making towers out of foam cups or solo cups.  I just got some cups and ask the children if they could build a tower or anything they wanted to build with the cups (just using their imagination).  i had one child build a "castle" another that said he was building  an "airplane."  the children had fun coming up with ideas that they could crate with the cups and felt good about doing the project.