Art Projects

At my day care ( by the way is called "Tender Loving Child Care") every tuesday we do a project! Everyone tells me "you can't do art projects with babies!" but you can! You just have to help them out a little more... So last Tuesday we painted hands. Babies, if you've noticed, slap their high chair or slap the ground or slap mid air, so it was easy to get Jesse to slap a piece of paper with paint on his hand! The only difficult thing was babies can tell when there is something they are slapping...So Jesse was grabbing and trying to eat the paper, that didn't work out so well. So if you try this project remember you have to tape the paper down or they will just eat it! 

This Tuesday we painted turtles. This art project is a little bit more difficult and takes a couple of tries. What you do is paint your child's knuckles. Make a fist out of their hand and stick up their thumb like you're giving a thumbs up and the thumb is the turtles head and the knuckles are it's body. With older children you can just tell them to make a fist and after you paint it just tell them to set it on the paper. But with babies it is a little harder. Babies do not like making fists for some reason, at least all the babies I've taken care of. So and easier way to do it with babies is just paint those knuckles and the head and don't make their hand into a fist, just set their hand upside down on the paper, and as long as you didn't get any paint on the other knuckles you can't even tell! So try them! Let me know how it goes!