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What is The Purpose of Art for Young Children?

Art is important to a child's developmental process. By experimenting with art, young children can express their ideas and feelings, develop motor coordination skills and learn about different types of materials and textures.

Interaction With Art Materials
With early learners, it is important to concentrate on the process instead of the product. Children can learn about colors, feelings and textures by experimenting with art materials.

Develop Motor Coordination Skills
By interacting with art materials and creating their own works of art, children can develop hand-to-eye coordination and manual dexterity.

Express Emotion
Art helps early learners to express their needs, wants and feelings.

Developing Comprehension Skills
By looking at and creating works of art, children develop the idea of sequencing, which builds their comprehension skills.

Solving Problems
Children who are exposed to art-making activities develop higher-level thinking and problem-solving skills than children who do not have this exposure.

ABC's Art

Letter Aa

  • glue hole punched apples or Alphabits cereal on a Aa
  • apple prints
  • hole punched around the letter A to be laced
  • paint a clip clothespin green to make an alligator; glue on small wiggly eyes and a red tongue
Letter Bb
  •  glue buttons on letter Bb
  • "bounce" balloons in black, blue and brown paint and make prints
  • butterflies made from coffee filters colored with markers or watercolors.
Letter Cc
  • glue on cotton balls on letter Cc
  • paint by rolling a corn cob in yellow paint

Letter Dd
  • hole punched around the letter D to be laced
  • make "Harry, the Dirty Dog" by placing black thumbprints
Letter Ee
  • glue eggshells on letter Ee
  • "paint" using egg yolks with food coloring (dries glossy)

Letter Ff
  • glue goldfish crackers on letter Ff
  • glue on cutout of fish; have the kids add eyes and mouth
  • make "Rainbow Fish" using coffee filters or handprints; add sequins and glitter

Letter Gg
  • glue green or gold glitter on letter Gg
  • make ghosts by putting a "blob" of white paint on black construction paper, folding it in half; draw on eyes and mouth after it dries

Letter Hh
  • glue fun foam hearts on letter Hh
  • make horrible hairy monsters
  • make housed and write address above the door
  • glue pink tissue paper between 2 red heart outlines to make a suncatcher
Letter Ii
  • glue inch long pieces of paper on letter Ii or yarn pieces
  • paint with ice cubes (put food coloring into water before freesing, cover with tin foil and add toothpicks into each "cube" for a handle to hold on to when painting
  • sponge paint a crumpled green paper; using brown and green paint, cut out into a Iguana shape
Letter Jj
  • paint letter Jj with glue and sprinkle Jello mix on it
  • make a "junk" collage
Letter Kk
  • glue Kix cereal on letter K
  • make key rubbing art
  • make wallpaper kites with small pieces of wallpaper scraps, glued to yarn or ribbon tails
Letter Ll
  • lace the letter L, make hole punches around letter and yarn
  • draw lines using rulers
  • make lambs by gluing on cottonballs or pieces of yarn on paper
Letter Mm
  • glue marshmellows on letter M
  • make marble paintings
Letter Nn
  • glue torned newspaper noodles on letter N
  • make beaded necklaces
  • make a night drawing by using black or dark blue construction paper and chalk or white crayons
  • make a crayon resistant night sky by drawing with a white crayon; starts, moon, birds and paint over it with black paint
Letter Oo
  • make an Octopus by gluing 8 strips of paper (tentacles) to a circle
  • glue cheerios on letter O
  • lace letter Oo
Letter Pp
  • glue pink and purple pompoms or pipecleaners on letter P
  • lace letter P
  • pink collage art
  • mix white and red to make pink paint
Letter Qq
  • trace a quater around
  • painting with Q-tips
  • make a quilt squares of any drawings, paintings, etc..
Letter Rr
  • make a red collage
  • laced letter R
  • glue rice on letter R
  • make a raccoon paper bag puppet
  • make a ribbon collages
Letter Ss
  • glue stickers on letter S
  • glue seashells on Ss
  • make stamp art
  • decorate a silly sock
  • use sand and paint to make a texture painting
Letter Tt
  • glue colored toothpicks or Trix cereal on letter T
  • glue tin foil on letter T
  • make tiny picture
  • tissue paper collage
Letter Uu

Letter Vv

Letter Ww
Letter Xx
Letter Yy
Letter Zz
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