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Tranportation Art
• Contact_FullName: Margaret Contact_Email: fishsteps@aol.com date:: 1/07/02 Area: Transportation-art Idea: Cut out lots of children's faces from old catalogs in a square shape. Make a yellow school bus shape and have the children glue the faces onto the bus. The square shape around the head of the child really looks like a window. The children can glue black circles on afterward for wheels. Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: sleezerp@juno.com date:: 03-06-03 Area: Art Idea: A great way to have children be creative with crayons is to make their own 'road maps' with a large piece of butcher paper or newspaper end-rolls. ( I found end rolls at the local newspaper for $1). Cut out a section as long as your table, then have children draw the roads, buildings, street signs, etc. and play with your small cars on the map. We drew a McDonalds, burger king, pizza hut, beach, etc....LOTS OF FUN!
ideaShape vehicles - cut out an assortment of shapes and have children put them together to make a train, boat, car, etc.
11-18-00During transportation week I taped maps to the table and had the children drive their vehicles over paint soaked sponges and make tire tracks all over the maps.
10-23-00I provided the kids with vehicles with interesting tire tracks. I taped butcher paper onto a table and provided the kids with stamp pads to roll the tires in. The children had a great time making tire impressions on the paper.
8-4-00I did a unit on water craft and based it on the Beatles song "We All Live in a Yellow Submarine". To start the unit off, I took a photo of each child in the class, drew a large yellow submarine on cardboard, cut out the portals and inserted each face in a portal. The children enjoyed coming in on the Monday to find that they were living in a yellow submarine! Ideas just flew after that.
6-6-00I've learned that some children love to push cars, trucks, boats, etc. through water, shaving cream, paint, or mud. I show them the different "tracks" that the wheels can make. They will roll them back & forth, around in circles or just stamp or splash them!
5-29-00Projects, creativity and pretend play go hand-in-hand when as a whole group you make a car, train, plane, etc. from large cardboard box(es) and various other recycled supplies. Preschoolers enjoy putting their heads together to create vehicles and frequently use their creations long after the week spent making them.
5-4-00For a transportation unit I did I had the children list as many different types of transportation (how we get from one place to another) they could think of. Then I had everyone that could to bring in an empty cardboard box. (I also had some on hand to use.) I told them to create a form of transportation. Some worked with a partner on this. I was amazed at how involved the children were in this project. Many children spent more than an hour on their project and others mentioned they were going to bring another box the next day to do another project. After they are all done we watched a movie at a 'drive in' theatre in our room and ate popcorn. It was lots of fun!
Date: 3-26-00We made airplanes out of paper towel tubes. I cut slits with an Exacto knife on the sides of tube and cut wings out of poster board and inserted through slits. Children painted the planes. After dry, we added windows with a small, square sponge. To finish the plane, I used alphabet pretzels and had each child spell out his name in pretzels and glue to the side of plane with tacky glue. They were displayed on a wire across the room and I hung white and blue crepe paper streamers in between the planes for sky and clouds.
Date: 3-23-00Cut a car shape out of oak tag. Paint the car by dipping marbles in various colors of paint and placing on top of the car in a box. Put the lid on the box and have children shake the box side to side to marble paint. After drying, cut out a window area and tape a piece of solid construction paper on the window area. Then take photos of the children and cut the child's head out of picture. Glue to window of car. Next glue pasta wheels to wheel area of car. These were placed on a bulletin board with roads painted on the backing paper. I then asked at circle time where each child would take us in his/her car. These ideas were written down on strips of paper and placed under each car on the board.
2-17-00A great idea for transportation art is to give children license plates to do crayon rubbings with.
Date: 2-6-00During our Transportation: "Things that Go" topic, we like to roll matchbox or hot wheel cars and trucks through paint and then roll them onto paper. The children enjoy this very much!
ideaMy cooperating teacher did this with the pre-school (age 4) and they ran with it! Better than anything we could have imagined!!! Tape a large piece of bulletin board paper to the floor or a large table. Supply crayons, pencils, and markers. Show the children a map and ask them what maps are for. Point out any local spots on the map. Tell the children that they will work together to create their own map. ask them to draw their house, their street and anything else they'd like. have toy cars boats and planes available for getting from one spot to another. Ask children about their work and write dictations on cards or right on the map itself. Ask lots of questions but let the ideas come mainly from the kids. Expand on these where appropriate. You will be amazed with all their creative ideas! Narice (with credit to Cindy Swencki, Head Teacher, Pre-K WCCC Child Development Center, Younwood, PA). Date: 9-9-99
Date: 7-27-99Car Tracks: Tape a piece of 12x18 piece of construction paper to the work area. Using three or four different sized plastic cars with moveable wheels and three or four different colored tempera paints. Pour tempera paint over a sponge. Prepare a different color for each sponge. Roll the wheels of the car across the paint soaked sponge and move the cars across the paper creating Car Tracks!
Date: 7-27-99Traffic Lights: Provide a green, yellow, and red circle for the child to cut (w/your help if necessary). Discuss that green means go, red means stop and yellow means slow down. Have the child glue the circles inside a shoebox lid in the order, simulating a real traffic light!
Date: 7-2-99Make a large stencil of a bus, airplane, car, etc. Put it over a blank piece of paper and let the children finger-paint over the whole area. We did yellow school bus and pasted black circles for wheels on them the next day.
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