preschool arts and crafts

Welcome to Our Preschool Arts and Crafts Homeschool Curriculum: Preschool Playground: Arts, Crafts & Music

Have you run out of ideas for incorporating art and music into your preschooler’s day? Preschool Playground: Arts, Crafts & Music is full of fun activities that are easy to implement—fun crafts (get sticky, painty, and creative!), great music (singing, instruments, even music appreciation!), puzzles, patterns, and more. Get inspired with these lessons, and your children will learn as they have a great time with you!

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Preschool Playground:
Arts, Crafts & Music

Length: More than 35 activities
Includes: Printable and hands-on activities and suggestions
Grade: Preschool

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Getting Started with Our Preschool Arts and Crafts Homeschool Curriculum: Preschool Playground: Arts, Crafts & Music

With more than 35 different preschool arts and crafts activities and music ideas, the Preschool Playground: Arts, Crafts & Music collection can be used to supplement early learning or as part of the complete SchoolhouseTeachers.com homeschool Preschool Playground curriculum.

Overview

  • More than 35 activities
  • Includes printable and hands-on activities and suggestions
  • Grade: Preschool

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan and lessons file. Start with the introduction, and follow through the rest of the course. Catalog the activities completed on the lesson plan.

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Course Sample for Our Preschool Arts and Crafts Homeschool Curriculum: Preschool Playground: Arts, Crafts & Music

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Preschool Playground: Arts, Crafts, and Music

Activity 6 – Sandpaper Pictures

Lay a piece of sandpaper down, rough side up, on a flat surface. Make sure the paper is not so rough that is could easily cut little fingers. Give your child cut pieces of colored yarn to attach to the sandpaper. The yarn will stick to the sandpaper—no glue required! When you get tired of one picture, just take the yarn off and start over. Make sure your child is old enough to understand that he or she must not rub the sandpaper on any nice surfaces (like the table) or put their fingers in their eyes, nose, mouth, etc. until after they have washed at the end of their craft. Some sandpaper leaves a fine grit on hands and skin that they will need to wash off.

This article including this idea first appeared in Creating a Rich Environment and a Fun Place to Learn for Preschoolers, published by The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine. Thanks to Carol, aka “Schoolinrhome,” for this idea.

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Course Outline for Our Preschool Arts and Crafts Homeschool Curriculum: Preschool Playground: Arts, Crafts & Music

 

These hands-on homeschool preschool arts and crafts projects and music ideas engage young learners in fun, creative ways.

  • Introduction
  • Fun with Variety
  • High and Low
  • Paint with Water
  • Make a Face
  • Color Scavenger Hunt
  • Dramatic Play
  • Art Fun
  • Music
  • Sandpaper Pictures
  • Sticker Pictures
  • Pipe Cleaner Sculptures
  • Building with Wooden Craft Sticks
  • Texture Hunt with Crayon Rubbings
  • Photo Album Fun
  • Pretend Play: Realistic Store
  • Pretend Play: Caring for Bear
  • Pretend Play: Shipwrecked
  • Press Flowers
  • Preschool Printmaking
  • Colored Noodle Sun Catchers
  • Button Scene
  • Sticky Notes of Love
  • Noodle Doodles
  • Color Hunt
  • Homemade Greeting Cards
  • Placemats
  • Classical Music
  • Classical Music: Peter and the Wolf
  • Classical Music: Carnival of the Animals
  • Christian Music
  • Secular Music
  • Singing with your Child
  • Musical Instruments
  • Weaving Music into Your Day
  • Fun with Puzzles
  • How to Act When You Go to a Show

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More About Our Preschool Arts and Crafts Homeschool Curriculum: Preschool Playground: Arts, Crafts & Music

Welcome to Preschool Playground: Arts, Crafts, and Music! Within this course, you will find more than 35 activity ideas divided into four sections: Arts and Crafts, Music, Pretend Play, and Puzzle Fun. Many of these ideas came from articles published by The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine.

If you are using this as part of a complete preschool curriculum, be sure to checkout additional tips on Planning Your Homeschool Preschool Curriculum.

If you’re not doing a formal preschool year with your students and are just looking for creative ways to introduce academic concepts, feel free to pick and choose whatever activities fit your interests. The amazing thing about learning is that it can happen anywhere, often when you least expect it. Enjoy!

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Quick Start

1.  Bookmark the course for easy access during instruction.

2. Click “View Lesson Plan” and organize as desired (on computer desktop or in a printed format). 

3.  Gather necessary resources as listed in the lesson plan.

4.  Click “Go to Class Lessons” and get started.

5.  Enjoy the course!

6.  Utilize Applecore or your own record keeping system throughout the course.

7.  Print a certificate of completion.

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