Here’s a fun way to introduce rectangles to your toddler’s
ever-growing vocabulary – make a hands-on messy painting!
While brainstorming about reinforcement activities for our shapes of the month, I was surprised I couldn’t find any ideas on Pinterest, so I just came up with my own, and it was a big hit.
The secret is painter’s tape! I love painter's tape. This is a reminiscent of our
square craft from October. We actually made this rectangle craft in January,
when our color focus was black and white.
Therefore, I taped off rectangles on white paper and we
fingerpainted over them with black paint. How much easier can you get?!
After the paint dried, I removed the tape, and voila! We had
some lovely black and white rectangles!
I liked that they could see the rectangles as they were
painting over the tape; although the teacher did the final step for the
finished product, they could still tell what it would be as they were squishing
paint all over it.
Of course, the kids were more excited about the spreading of
paint than the shape they were painting over, but that’s why it’s just an
introduction to shapes. And several of them did learn the word “rectangle.”
P.S. A word to the wise: do not work in toddler classrooms if
you can’t handle messes!
Just commented on an older post...but saw this recent one...
ReplyDeleteWould you mind sharing with me what paint do you use and where to buy it?
Thanks.
This was actually Colorations washable finger paint, purchased by our school from Discount School Supply.
DeleteThank you so much for the quick reply. I will go check to see if my local Michaels carry it. Cool blog you have!
ReplyDeleteThis looks fun!! What kind of paper did you use?
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