The toddler years are a great time to introduce art. Creative juices are running rampant! Bring some fun into play by providing simple art materials. You can cut down on the clean up after by covering the child in a large apron or art smock, protecting the area with a drop cloth such as an old shower curtain and containing the art space with a large cookie sheet.
Here are some fun toddler art materials:
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Playdough
Toddlers love to manipulate materials with their hands. Playdough is the perfect media! It can be purchased dough or a simple home made recipe. Either way will provide hours of fun. Toddlers don't need many accessories. Perhaps a plastic knife or fork, a thick dowel for rolling and golf tees for poking with suffice.
Stickers
Found stickers that come in mail advertisements will offer a great deal of fun for toddlers. Even those inexpensive yard sale circle stickers will occupy a toddler for a long time. Part of the fun is the putting on and taking off. You'll find that process more do-able if you provide wax paper to attach the stickers. Watch the excitement in the toddler while they work.
Roller Art
Take an old roll on deodorant container, remove the 'ball' and fill the container with tempera paint. Put the ball back in. You have the perfect, non-messy, roller art brush for your toddler. Lay a piece of paper inside a rimmed cookie sheet and you have painting boundaries. Your toddler will love painting and creating. You will have beautiful art to hang and minimal clean up. It doesn't get better than that!
Stamp Art
Another fun art activity for a toddler is stamping. They love the up and down motion of creating marks. Almost anything can be the stamp---an empty thread spool, an interesting rock, a cork, a sponge, you-name-it! A simple stamp pad can be made with a thick layer of paper towel with paint on it. Show your child how to dab the object in the paint and then on the paper (paper inside a cookie sheet to contain the stamping area). Tons of fun!
Tear 'em up
Toddlers love to tear so why not go with it. Give them old magazines to tear. The tearing process strengthens the small muscles they will soon use to write with so why not give them some exercise? A few magazines on an old sheet or shower curtain and let them go! As they get better at it you can show them how to tear around pictures they might want to keep. Otherwise random tearing is just as much fun. When the activity is over, just pick up the sheet and shake it into a trash bag! Lots of fun, quick clean up.
Give your kids a chance to use decision making skills, use their senses to create and develop small motor skills---all while having fun with art!
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