Category: Creativity and Movement

  • Paint Your Feelings

    Your Child Will Learn

    Colors can represent how we feel 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child to think about how colors represent different feelings; follow their lead even if their thoughts about colors and feelings are unusual
    2. Display 3-4
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  • Tummy Time Art

    Your Child Will Learn

    Strength, coordination, and sensory development through creative stimulation

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Fill a ziploc bag with shaving cream and a few drops of one food coloring; the bag should be zipped tight and leak-proof
    2. If
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  • Sock Puppet Play

    Your Child Will Learn

    Create a puppet with art materials

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Give your child an old sock and color markers to create a sock puppet
    2. While your child is working, create your own sock puppet alongside them 
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  • Torn Paper Collage

    Your Child Will Learn

    Tear paper to create an artistic collage

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Give your child 5-6 strips of colored paper
    2. Demonstrate tearing the strips into smaller pieces
    3. Give your child paper and glue to create a collage
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  • Cut Paper Collage

    Your Child Will Learn

    Cut paper with scissors to create an artistic collage

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Give your child 5-6 strips of colored paper
    2. Discuss and model the safe use of scissors
    3. Demonstrate using the scissors to cut the
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  • Paper Mache Bowl

    Your Child Will Learn

    Use paper mache sculpture to create a bowl

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Mix 1 part water, 1 part flour, and 2 tablespoons of liquid white glue in a bowl until the consistency is similar to pancake
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  • Straw Bubble Painting

    Your Child Will Learn

    Mix colors to create art in fun and playful ways

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Mix 3-4 watercolor paints with extra water and small drops of soap; keep each color mixture in a separate container
    2. Dip a
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  • Beat Your Feet

    Your Child Will Learn

    Creative stimulation for touch and sound sensory experience

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Lay your baby on their back and hold a baking pan in front of their feet for them to kick

    Put PEER Into Action

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  • Paint A Cityscape

    Your Child Will Learn

    Use art materials and imagination to create a city

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Collect recycled cardboard 
    2. Flatten the cardboard and tape a few pieces side-by-side to construct a long surface
    3. Give your child paint to create
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  • Contrast Pictures

    Your Child Will Learn

    Perception of contrasting pictures

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Create contrasting pairs of simple shapes on white paper with a black marker 
    2. For one shape, only draw the outline
    3. For the matching shape, color the inside 
    4. Hold
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