I am a head teacher in an infant room and am running out of craft ideas to do with the children since they are so limited in what they can do verses the teacher having to do it mostly for them.. any ideas would be great! Thanks!!
I work in an infant room and I am all about the art. Most of my projects are really not for the parents ( like hand prints ), they are for the child's experience. Of course any paint, crayon, chalk project is messy yet fun. We have made ice cubes filled with watercolors and filled or water table with paper. The kids then just pushed the ice around and it melted all over the paper. One project thats not messy at all ( except the floor clean-up) is put a huge piece of paper on the floor, squirt colors on it in thick lines and blobs ( make sure its a lot of paint) then tape down over it a clean shower curtain. The curtain should be larger then the paper. All ages of infants can walk over it, crawl over it, push it, kick, slap the paint under the curtain. You end up with the paint mixing and spreading around. Its a huge wall mural.
Hi, I am also an infant teacher and know how dfficult it can be to come up with ideas for them but here are a few that I have done...I did a medium exploration with my infants. I gave them markers, crayons, tape, yarn, paint and anything else I could think of and let them just put it however they wanted on a big piece of paper. The older ones especially loved the tape and how it stuck to them (you could also use stickers). Another cool art project that also works on science concepts and fine motor skills is to use a dropper and put food coloring in it and then let the infants squeeze the dropper onto paper or coffee filters. The squeezing is a great way to work those little hands. Hope this helps you!
You could try giving them non-toxic finger paint(heavily supervised,obviously)and maybe doing handprint projects to give to their parents,like where they just put their hand and foot prints on a piece of paper and you give them to their parents.They'll love that.Parents like to have records of their babies.
this may not help much because they are young but you could try 2 do oreo spiders since its getting close 2 Halloween! :D
Thanks.. I'll keep that in mind for October! Keep the ideas coming!
