ART WEEK Storytime

The week of May 15-19 was ART Week throughout our library district!  I was the coordinator for all of the art projects, so it ended up being a pretty big job.  But it was so much fun and the children really seemed to have fun with it...and the parents liked the change of pace too.

Books

White Rabbit's Color Book

by Alan Baker

I subbed on Wednesday and since I had some of the same kids I read...

Mouse Paint

Ellen Stoll Walsh

Elephants Can Paint Too!

by Katya Arnold

Songs/Rhymes

ABC Welcome

What did Henrietta Bring? (paintbrush)

Paint a Picture
Instead of a song we all stood up and "painted a picture"
Put on apron, get out paints, decide on the size of our canvas

Squirt out some blue...
What could we paint that is blue?
I allowed children to name whatever they wanted to paint, and then we "painted" it

Wash out your brush!

Continue with red and yellow

Let's make green.  What colors do we need to mix together to make green?

Continue with orange and purple.

Sign your name!  Show your picture to your grown-up!

With all these colors let's paint one more picture...a rainbow!

Play and Learn

Can You Paint with That?

 I made two identical egg carton paint palette and paint "brushes"--feather, pipe cleaners, straw, cotton ball, foil ball, yarn.  The kids did a pretty good job of putting their "paintbrushes" back into the correct paint color.

Chalk Art

Ice Painting

Blocks, magnets, train set

See this post about how I divided up the preschoolers.

On Wednesday the storytime person wanted to do "New Creatures" instead of painting.