Category: Exploration of Creative Arts

  • Snipping with Scissors

    Your Child Will Learn

    Fine motor control and beginning scissor skills 

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Demonstrate how to snip paper with child-sized safety scissors. Exaggerate your finger movements and say “cut” with every snip.
    2. Let me practice holding and moving
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  • Responding to Music

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to notice and react to music

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Play lots of different types of music for me throughout the day. Help me feel the rhythm of the music by moving to the beat
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  • Play Dough

    Your Child Will Learn

    Fine motor skills and how to use tools

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Play with play dough! You can use store-bought play dough or make your own (recipe attached).
    2. Show me how much fun it is to
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  • Keeping Marks on the Paper

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to keep my coloring and painting on the paper to get ready to learn to write

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Tape a piece of paper to a larger piece of cardboard or a tray. Tape
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  • Learning to Sticker

    Your Child Will Learn

    Fine motor skills, how to use stickers, and creativity

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Gather things that are sticky on one side, like sticky notes, tape, or stickers.
    2. Help me peel a sticker or tear a piece
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  • Learning to Glue

    Your Child Will Learn

    Fine motor skills, how to use glue, and creativity

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Cut or tear paper into shapes like squares or circles. For easy clean-up, put a tablecloth, piece of cardboard, or baking sheet on
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  • Moving to Rhythms

    Your Child Will Learn

    To enjoy dancing, and to begin to connect the rhythm of music to body movement

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Turn on some music. Dance for me and match the rhythm of the music (don’t worry if
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  • Pop Art Portrait

    Your Child Will Learn

    Create a portrait with bright colors, shapes, and patterns

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Ask your child’s teacher to take a picture of your child and print a large black and white copy of it for you.
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  • Accordion Paper Sculpture

    Your Child Will Learn

    How to make art with folded paper

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Cut 10 long strips of colored paper for your child.
    2. Show your child how to fold the strips back and forth like an accordion. Help
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  • Natural Music

    Your Child Will Learn

    Music can be made from objects found in nature

    Here’s What to Do

    1. Plan a trip to a park, nature trail, open field, valley, or meadow
    2. Find natural objects that can be used to make different
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