Tie Dye and Sand Art ~ Messy Summer Fun Week 3 2012

During the Summer I hold Messy Summer Fun Classes/Workshops/Camp-days...on Mondays. Each session includes a sensory tub, messy craft, ice sculpture to melt, messy gross motor activity and snack....This week for our Tie Dye and Sand Art Messy Fun, I had 22 Children... however, everyone worked together and things stayed pretty organized...and everyone got to make both projects. 

Some of the kids in their finished shirts...

This week's ice sculpture had dice erasers inside...

 With so many kids this week... the 3 sculptures were melted quickly...

 Playing with the water sensory bin....sea life themed...

 Shaving Cream Balloons...

 Relay/obstacle course/ free for all.... shaving cream balloons, hippity hop, hula hoop...lots of mess!

 Hippity hops are fun...but running is faster and means twice as many balloons...

 It actually stayed pretty organized...

 Sand Art.... half of the kids did Sand Art while the other half did their tie dye shirts... 

then they switched... a very organized chaos....

 The kids had 12 colors to choose from....and chopsticks to make fun designs...

Some of the finished bottles...

 Meanwhile at the Tie Dye table..... 

 Ryleigh working on her shirt...

 Ryleigh went with a giant swirl method....

 3 of the finished shirts.... 

We finished off the day with homemade snowcones for snack.... yummy on a hot day!!!

For more fun projects check out ABC and 123... . and Preschool Corner at Homeschool Creations;

stART- Moon Dance

A story + art = a great stART!

This week for our stART project we read Moon Dance- which is a bright and colorful story about the dolphins coming out at the end of the day to play. The book reminded me of the ocean (since it took place in it....) and the ocean reminds me of sand (because there is so much of it)...so we did Sand Art...seriously...not a huge stretch this week...like some of my other projects...

For Ryleigh's Birthday, she received a Sand Art kit...including different colors of sand, bottles, a funnel and a "tool"...which is a wooden dowel... Ryleigh spent a good hour doing this project (not because it takes so long-but because she was so into it)...

Ryleigh beginning to pour sand...after deciding which color to start with...

Placing the dowel back on the tray after poking at the sand...

She really liked the pink...

The start of the second bottle...she even missed some of Sesame Street for this...

The finished projects...
she loved doing them so much that I am glad that the kit came with two more bottles!

For other great stART projects check out A Mommy's Adventure's !