Hello readers,

Today in the crazy twos creative classroom the children pretended to draw pictures on notes to their friends and put them into the mail bag and then separate the drawings into the separate mail bags for each of the children of my class. All the children really enjoyed coloring on their own mail bag. Some of more then others. The older twos liked drawing on a note for their friend and then putting stickers on their note to their friend. They really liked telling me who they wanted to give their notes to. Some of them surprised me of who they wanted to give their note to. Like Harper who is a little girl who is outspoken wanted to give a boy whose rather quite in class a note. The younger ones mostly wanted to give their notes to themselves. I think the best part of this dramatic play activity they liked was putting the stickers on the notes. I tried with one older two to get them to put their note in an envelope but they just became frustrated with it, so we just decided to write to: and from:. one of my older twos was the only one that wanted to separate the notes into the separate mail bag. I even tried to put a blue mail carrier hat on some of the children that said they wanted to but they just took off the outfit and went to play. I was surprised how long they wanted to do this activity. I loved that it was an extension of dramatic play. They drew pictures on their mail bags, notes to their friends, put stickers on their notes for their friends for about 3 0 minutes. The blog that I took this activity from looked like they did it with ages 3 to 4 and I was hesitate to do the activity with my class but they seemed like they enjoyed it. The older twos much more then the younger ones. I would love to do this more in my classroom. The blog was Here Come The Girls. The activity was the Post Office.

Hello, Today in my twos creative classroom we painted with paint ice cubes. The older and younger ones really enjoyed it. I caught my youngest two trying to eat the ice the paint cube because I guess he thought it was a popsicle. He also liked this art because you didn't have to get dirty with paint. He liked using the stick to paint and mix the colors. My older twos liked using all the different colors. It was a great activity to show them if you mix two different colors they make a whole new color. One of the girls mixed blue and red together and it made purple. Then since she liked that so much she mixed red and yellow together and together it made orange, which one of my oldest boys pointed out. The children liked using the stick with the paint cube in different ways. Some swirled the paint, some made dots. They really liked this art activity. From letting the hot water warm up the paint to washing the paint out of the ice cube trays and throwing away the sticks. I have to say a very easy clean up after such a fun, somewhat messy activity. This activity would also be great for a science activity. Since the children are so use to seeing paint in a liquid form instead of a sold they would be taught on how things can be turned into a solid or a liquid.

Art Appreciation: Mosaic

Hello, Today in the twos creative classroom the toddlers worked on their mosaic pieces. I was thinking about making a copy of a snowflake for them to mosaic but that was a fail so instead I came up with an even more creative idea. I asked them what they wanted to Mosaic. Many of them said Mickey Mouse or Minnie Mouse. Which in turn became singing M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse. It is so funny that when your that little you can break out in song whenever you feel the need to. There was also a disagreement on who could do Minnie or Mickey Mouse. I quickly told them that they could mosaic what every they wanted me to. While the twos were doing this project I learned that the older ones liked doing the activity and spent a good amount of time figuring out what colors they wanted to put on their Mickey or Minnie Mouse and the younger ones couldn't keep their attention on the art activity. I also learned that the two year old that usually isn't very interest in art projects was somewhat interested because it was Mickey Mouse but that it was a time consuming art activity and she didn't want to make sure that the pieces were on the glue but instead wanted to pile them on the other pieces to just get it done. They were doing a lot of fine motor activity trying to grab the small squares with their fingers and the placement of where they wanted to place them. The children had a really good time with the activity. I got the idea for doing mosaic for art appreciation from the website wwww.blog.mellissaanddoug.com and their site off Pintrest Summer Art School 5 ways to teach in 5 days to teach your child about art.