The toddler years are a outstanding time to introduce art. Creative juices are running rampant! Bring some fun into play by supplying simple art materials. You may cut down on the clean up after by covering the child in a big apron or art smock, protecting the area with a drop cloth such as an old shower curtain and containing the art space with a big cookie sheet.
Here are a great deal of fun toddler art materials:
Playdough
Toddlers love to manipulate materials with their hands. Playdough is the perfective media! It may be purchased dough or a simple home made recipe. Either way will provide hours of fun. Toddlers don’t need a lot of accessories. Perhaps a plastic knife or fork, a thick dowel for rolling and golf tees for poking with suffice.
Stickers
Found stickers that come in mail advertisements will offer a outstanding deal of fun for toddlers. Even those inexpensive yard sale circle stickers will occupy a toddler for a long time. Part of the fun is the putting on and taking off. You’ll find that routine more do-able if you provide wax paper to attach the stickers. Watch the excitement in the toddler while they work.
Roller Art
Take an old roll on deodorant container, remove the ‘ball’ and fill the container with tempera paint. Put the ball back in. You have the perfect, non-messy, roller art brush for your toddler. Lay a piece of paper inside a rimmed cookie sheet and you have painting boundaries. Your toddler will love painting and creating. You will have finelooking art to hang and minimal clean up. It doesn’t get better than that!
Stamp Art
Another fun art action for a toddler is stamping. They love the up and down motion of creating marks. Almost anything may be the stamp—an empty thread spool, an interesting rock, a cork, a sponge, you-name-it! A simple stamp pad may be made with a thick layer of paper towel with paint on it. Show your child how to dab the object in the paint and then on the paper (paper inside a cookie sheet to comprise the stamping area). Tons of fun!
Tear ‘em up
Toddlers love to tear so why not go with it. Give them old magazines to tear. The tearing procedure strengthens the little muscles they will soon use to write with so why not give them a great deal of exercise? A few magazines on an old sheet or shower curtain and let them go! As they get better at it you may show them how to tear around pictures they might want to keep. Otherwise random tearing is just as much fun. When the action is over, just pick up the sheet and shake it into a trash bag! Lots of fun, quick clean up.
Give your kids a prospect to use decision making skills, use their senses to manufacture and fabricate little motor skills—all while having fun with art!
The Best Art Apron!
NOT Waterproof OR Paint Proof