Part of what Lily has really enjoyed about preschool is craft time. Each week the kids do some type of craft associated with that week's theme.
The first week the theme was "Transportation". The kids got to roll different types of cars, buses, motorcycles, etc. in brown mud (paint) and then roll the tires on white paper.
Last week the theme was "Emotions/Facial Expressions". The children made hand-held mirrors with paper plates and CDs.
Today's theme was "Fall". The kids made the cutest little wreaths with leaves and cut outs of their hand shapes. So sweet!
One thing that has really surprised me during craft time is how many parents actually DO their child's craft. We're not talking...help...I mean actually do it! I've always viewed my role when Lily is doing crafts as more of a...watch the scissors....help keep the glue out of her hair...and the paint off the carpet. That sort of thing. Not, "Honey, you're using too much blue. Let's make sure these stickers are lined up perfectly. Um, just move over and let Mommy do it." However, I must confess. I glued Lily's hand shapes onto her wreath today. Lily had reached the end of her craft mood and had moved on to the workbench!
With our tiny house and limited storage space I know I wont always be able to keep every craft Lily makes, but that doesn't mean I wont try! For now, I am really enjoying seeing Lily's artwork grace our fridge, walls and doors!
1 comment:
TJ, you'd be surprised by how many artistic creations you CAN keep. An art portfolio corrals all those creations and is fairly easy to store in a small space under a bed, in the back of a closet, or other such hidey-hole. I made my own child's art portfolio for this purpose and it was inexpensive and easy. I got a pair of foam boards, punched a hole at either end of one long edge in each board, tied them together with some cute ribbon and that was the hinge of my portfolio. Next, I punched one hole in the center of the opposite long edge of each board and threaded a ribbon through the hole on each board. I knotted each end of each ribbon and that was the latch on my portfolio. I prefer my homemade art portfolio to a commercially available one because I can easily adjust or replace the ribbons on the hinge and the latch to accomodate additions to my art collection. I'd like to say I hit on this idea when my sons were little and I carefully filed and saved all their artwork over the 20-plus years I've been a Mom. I'd like to say that, but I'd be lying! My poor husband put up with bags, boxes, and loose artwork in our attic for years and then was told to actually pack it all up and move it to our current home when we moved. Now that I am a Grandmom, I thought it might be about time to wrangle all that stuff and I came up with the portfolio. Please don't think I now have two completed portfolios for my sons, but I'm about halfway there and the portfolios hold a LOT. So enjoy those artistic creations Lily brings home because, believe me, someday she'll be 23 or 24 and you will really enjoy being able to relive her toddler years by visiting her artwork.
Cousin Eileen
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