The KDH classroom is now filled with winter related activities in all the centers. We try to provide materials that are open ended and encourage the children's ingenuity. This is especially true of what we put in our art center.
When I took out my winter materials, I found a box of winter foam stickers that I had purchased on clearance at the end of last winter. I was feeling hesitant about putting them out, wondering if foam stickers would engender the kind of art and creativity the children in a PreK/K class are capable of. Peeling stickers is great fine motor skill to develop in a Kitah Bet class but in KDH, I wasn't sure.
Still, I put them out as a choice during early morning free choice time.
There were penguins, scarves, snowflakes, trees and hat stickers......
Once again the children continue to amaze us. They discovered that the little pieces that are meant to be discarded from the snowflake stickers look like fish. They created pictures with penguins, lakes filled with fish, talking trees and more. Then, they dictated to us what was happening in the pictures.Some of the children worked on their pictures yesterday and continued today. They are working cooperatively and want to make a book with them.
All this from stickers!!!
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Art. Literacy. Fine Motor Skills. Cooperative Play. Imaginative Play.
Wow!!!
Morah Ruth
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