Toddler Art Class: Cloud Dough

Who knew clouds could be so messy?

Art Project: Cloud Dough
Supplies:
flour
oil (cooking oil, baby oil, whatever)
measuring cups and spoons
big bowls, smaller bowls
silicone baking molds
cookie cutters

Book:
  Sora and the cloud = Sora to kumo / Hoshino, Felicia

Music to make art by:  
Catch that train! [sound recording] / Zanes, Dan

Toddler Art Class: Indoor Snow!

When it's too cold to go outside (or too warm for snow), make some indoors with two simple ingredients!
Art Project:  Indoor (warm) snow!
Supplies:
shaving cream
cornstarch
bowls
sticks (optional)

Book:
  Snow / Shulevitz, Uri

Music to make art by:
  Little seed songs for children / [sound recording] : Guthrie, Woody

Toddler Art Class: Shredded Paper Snow

Let it snow.... indoors!

Art Project: shredded paper snow 
Supplies:
shredded paper
black paper
glue
wooden craft sticks

Book: 

All you need for a snowman / Schertle, Alice

WonderWorks: Same & Different

Before we can talk about ranking things in order by size or sorting things by type, we must simply ask what it means for objects to be the same and different.

Today's Topic:  Same & Different
Supplies:
--Memory Games (there are many free printable versions online if you don't have easy access to ready-made.  We used this cute popsicle version today.)
--Domino Games (you could use the ones with dots, but stay away from ones with more than 5 dots at this age.  You can also try picture dominoes.  There's a free printable version here.)
--Any other matching games (we used Socken!)
--Buttons in a variety of sizes, colors, finishes, number of holes...
--foam alphabet letters in both capital and lowercase
--wooden blocks
--6 pairs of plastic eggs filled with different objects (instructions here)
--6 pairs of balloons filled with different textures (instructions here, only I also added a second balloon stretched over the finished ball to make it just that much stronger)


Book:
  Same same / Jocelyn, Marthe