Creating Preschool Art Lesson Plans Suitable for all Children

Lesson plans for preschool can be fun, rewarding and valuable to everyone involved. Not only does is offer a preschool teacher the ability to stay organized, but it also offers the opportunity for written documentation of what they’re teaching children throughout the year.

When it comes to teaching children at the preschool level, art is just as important as any other aspect of the learning day. Creating preschool art lesson plans to incorporate into the activities of the day is a great way to expand a child’s interest, imagination and pride. Preschool art projects are also ways for children to share their days with parents at home in the evening.

Preschool Art Lesson Plan Ideas

Lesson plans can be created in a number of different ways, depending on the teachers’ preference in regard to documentation and plan layout. The most important part of creating preschool art lesson plans is to make sure the activities are appropriate for preschool children, and all of the planning is done beforehand. Some great preschool art lesson plan ideas follow:

Family Portraits

You will need children’s smocks, white construction paper, multiple colors of paint, some thin and thick paint brushes as well as newspaper to line tables with. Teachers should consider painting their own family portraits beforehand, as examples for the children. Encouragement for painting the portraits in the children’s favorite scenes like at home and at the park is suggested. These portraits can even be laminated for the parents, creating a safe keep that can last a lifetime.

Paper Mache Pinatas

A great preschool art lesson plan is to create paper mache pinatas. Although the project isn’t necessarily a clean project, it’s fun for children to learn how paper mache works. It’s also a great lesson in how ingredients can be mixed together to be useful in a different way.

The project should be completed outside because it can get messy, but all that’s needed is some flour and water mixed to a paste consistency, some balloons and some strips of newspaper. Blow the balloons up, and dip the strips of newspaper into the paper mache mix then paste the strips of paper onto the balloons. Let them dry over night and the children have themselves their own piñatas!

Easy Macaroni Necklaces

Fun for children and great gifts for parents, macaroni necklaces make for a perfect preschool art lesson plan. By cooking macaroni noodles and leaving them to dry over night, they become hard and can be used on strings to create necklaces or bracelets. Going a step further, these jewelry pieces can be hand painted and dried again overnight before taking them home to parents.