Child Activity: Recycled Wall Collage Painting
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This Afternoon Activity is part of an ongoing series between Maple and Tinkerwonderplay. Join us on Instagram LIVE once a month on Thursday with your toddler as we explore new activities and play with our kids…
Recycled Wall Collage Painting: With your littles collect recycled materials for the week from items you use up in the house.
Here’s what you’ll need:
✔️Recycled cardboard, bottle caps, packaging, containers, egg cartons, take out boxes, bubble wrap, tubes, plates, cds, paper, or anything else you can think of.
✔️Glue, Paint, Paint Brushes, Tape.
Invite the child to glue or tape the recycled materials to the base (cardboard, butcher paper, poster paper). Once everything is securely placed onto the base you can hang the collage on a fence/wall or let them paint on the ground.
Process art such as this lets a child experiment and interact with art materials through an enhanced sensory exploration. With a variety of textures, children began to discover that by using different techniques with the paint on top of the textured surface will produce varying outcomes and a different perspective of art. This is definitely a process-not-product activity, it is very exploratory, creative, and open-ended. Creating art boosts children's ability to analyze and problem-solve in many ways. As they manipulate a paintbrush in all the different grooves and surfaces, their fine motor skills improve. By mixing paint colors, they explore the concepts of math. When children experiment with materials, they dabble in science. Art provides for limitless creativity while instilling curiosity and wonder in the process.
Tinkerwonderplay is run by Yasmeen Kamrani . Yasmeen is the Administrator of three preschools in Alameda, CA. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a focus on Human Resources & Marketing, a minor in Human Development specializing in Early Childhood Education, as well as a Master of Science in Early Childhood Education. She has 20 years of combined experience in the classroom and administration. She believes children thrive in an environment filled with intention, beauty, curiosity, and wonder. Her goal is to provide resources to empower educators, parents, and anyone for all things Early Childhood.