Monday - Creative Arts

Mondays mean music, movement and art around here! A child's imagination is limitless! Build their budding creative arts skills today by working these activities into your interactions. Directions: Play, Love, Repeat!

Music

Skill Targeted from PBS Development Tracker: 
 "Enjoys singing aloud (e.g., hums simple tunes, initiates singing with an adult)."

Activity: 
Row, Row, Row Your Boat

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Directions

1. Sit on the floor across from your child, legs spread far enough apart so that you can hold hands.
2. Pull your child toward you, then lean forward and have your child lean back.
3. Continue the rocking motion, forward and back, as you sing the familiar song "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" or other rocking rhymes.

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Art

Skill Targeted from PBS Development Tracker:
"Creates nonrepresentational art (e.g., makes random marks and scribbles on paper using crayons, markers, pencil or chalk)."

Activity:

 Collage

Directions:
Put a piece of sticky contact paper on a table with the sticky side up and tape down all the sides. Model putting on collage items such as feathers, leaves, shapes/objects cut from paper, and any small you can place sheets of construction paper on it and cut it into sections for pictures to take home. If the objects are all flat, the sections can be used for place mats.

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 Movement

Skill Targeted from PBS Development Tracker:
 "Participates in finger plays and body plays (e.g., tries to act out hand motions to "Itsy Bitsy Spider")."

Activity:
Follow The Leader

Directions:
Play Follow the Leader while working on large muscle development with large body movements: ie - hop on one foot, whirl, skip, flap arms, jump, etc."

Song You Can Use:


Follow me
Wherever I go,
And do what I do
When I tell you so.

First we walk
(All walk the same way as the leader does)

And then we skip,
(Everyone skip)

And then we will jump
With a clip, clip, clip!
(Jump in place or around the room)

Now we'll run
A merry race
(Run on the spot, or in short 'race')

And then we will STOP!
Ev'ryone, stay in place!
(Everyone freeze in place)

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Dramatic Play 

Skill Targeted from PBS Development Tracker:
"Extends doll play with props representative of daily life"


Activity: 
Dress The Furniture

Directions: 
Gather up different articles of clothing (hats, aprons, sweaters, skirts, socks, gloves, scarves) and dress the furniture in the articles of clothing (IE hang an apron on the floor lamp) The more silly you make this game the more fun it will be. This also is a good chance to build vocabulary with clothing items.