Finger Painting

Simple and highly sensorial art project. Big Boy really likes to get his 

hands in the paint.

Materials:

- Finger paints

- Finger paint paper

The child chooses what color he wants and places a few drops on the paper. Then he can enjoy making his art project.

Golf Ball Painting

Materials:

- A flat box with the sides cut off

- A golf ball

- White paper

- Tempera paints

We put the ball on one corner and then we dropped paint to it. Then he shook the box to make his golf ball paint! When he was done with one color he added other colors to the ball. He chose to do it that way. There are many variations to this activity. For example, you can put paint into a small container and put the ball there first before putting it on the box so the child can grab it an do it himself. You can use more balls and have a container with paint with a ball for each color.

Foam Board Snow Man

This is a foam board snow man. It was fun to make it!

Materials:

-White foam board (found at the Dollar Store)

-Glue

-Permanent marker

-Hot glue gun

-Glitter 

- Utility knife

- Pencil

- Popsicle stick

- Buttons for the eyes and body

- I used the cap of a glue bottle for a nose

- A scarf

- A wooden paint stir stick

- Duct tape

Directions:

You can design it any way you like.

We put glue all over the body then we put the glitter then with the hot

glue gun we attached the eyes, mouth, nose and buttons for the body.

I used a popsicle stick and I drew the mouth with the permanent marker.

Then we duct taped the stick in the back. And finally we put the scarf and placed the snow 

man in the front yard for decoration.

The most fascinating thing about this project is that the water and sun dried the first layer of paper and it peel it!!! Now we can re use it for next winter!!!

Use a mixture of shaving cream and glue for a textured snowman!

Messy Art Project Blow up Paint Bags

We did this project in various steps and in the end we had an messy, fun, and artsy explosion!

We got the paints and the sandwich bags. Added one colored paint to each bag.

So Big Boy got to squish it, rub it and play with it.

After he played we added water.

Shake, shake, shake it!

Blow air inside of the bag.

It was neat that we discovered this heart shaped hole in the patio.

We got this idea from Play Create Explore. Thank you PCE!

Christmas/winter Sensory Tub

We used Insta-Snow, 2 trees, cotton balls and erasures that we got at the Dollar Tree store. I added two Christmas cups that we had and a penguin. He can use the spatula 

as a snowplow to make a road, etc.

This is a fun activity to do with your child. BB loves it and he is there playing as I 

write this. We may add glitter later to add to the sensorial part of this activity. BB helped with the measuring and watched as the powder turns into snow, great science experiment. For another science experiment put some of the "snow" in the freezer 

and come back several hours later to see what happened!

Note: Make sure your child doesn't put the 'snow' in his mouth or eyes. I am pretty sure it is not good*. BB is very good with not putting things in his mouth.

* Please read this Insta-snow precaution info.

Decorating a Gingerbread House

He liked decorating his house. Dec. 2011

We used a kit that we bought last year in Jo-Ann. Trader Joe's

sells them too.

This is Big Boy's Gingerbread House

Christmas activities

 We use this to build a city. We added cars and a wooden train set to complete it. With this 

activity we talk about vocabulary like "next to", "in front of", etc. With older children you could

draw a map and then us the map to build the city. (We got this ceramic buildings at the Dollar Tree store).

This is a small tree that Big Boy can decorate himself.

Stocking Christmas houses.