Toddler and Pre-School Theme Days

BINGO DABBER ART:

Our Elementary school had a yearly BINGO night so we had our own BINGO Dabbers at home to take with us each year. We pulled out two shades of blue and made some art!

COLORING PAGES:

Go online to your favourite search engine to find colouring pages of blue things or favourite blue characters or print out my Blue Things Colouring Page. Use blue crayons and/or blue markers to colour.

blue Ocean art from the PIXAr exhibit at Telus World Of Science in edmonton in 2017

The Colour Blue

FIND BLUE IN STREET ART LIKE THIS FRINGE PIECE IN EDMONTON

BLUE PAINTING:

Give your child some blue paint (set out newspaper or a plastic sheet before hand and don’t forget to wear old shirts or art smocks) and let him/her be creative. My son decided to make blue handprints!

BLUE BOOKLET:

Materials: Blue crayons and markers, sheet of blue paper, child-safe scissors, glue stick, stapler, a copy of my Blue Things Colouring Page, a facecloth for sticky fingers.

Step 1: Sit with your child as your child draws his/her own blue things for the booklet (six in total) or colours the pictures on the colouring page.
Step 2: Help your child cut out the individual pictures.

Step 3: Fold the sheet of blue paper into three parts (as if you were going to put it in an envelope) and cut along the folds to make three blue rectangles
Step 4: Fold each of these three blue pieces of paper in half and cut along the fold to make six small sheets of paper.
Step 5: Have your child apply glue to each blue picture and glue each one to a small sheet of blue paper.
Step 6: Help your child staple the sheets together to make a little book.
Step 7: Read the book together to review the colour blue.

VARIATION: Make a mini booklet using pictures of blue things your child has cut out from old magazines.

lovely blue art downtown tauranga, New Zealand

BLUE COLLAGE:

Materials: Blue paper, old magazines, child-safe scissors, washable glue stick, damp facecloth for sticky fingers.

Step 1: Look through old magazines with your child and have him/her point out anything blue he/she sees.

Step 2: Help your child cut out the blue pictures from the magazine to make a pile of blue pictures.

Step 3: Show your child how to glue the pictures onto the blue piece of paper to make a collage and then let him/her glue the pictures on the paper however he/she likes.

· Step 4: When the collage is dry display (fridge, bulletin board, child’s door) or glue into your Family Theme Scrapbook.

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