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Ideas To Use In Your Child’s Preschool Art Class

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When the children are growing, you will find a great deal of preschool art in your home. Parents proudly display the preschool art of their little artists on the fridge, the nursery (or children’s rooms) walls, and all other possible places in the house to encourage the little ones. Nonetheless, most of these preschool art drawings and posters will end up in the dustbin.

What You Can do to Preserve Them as Long as Possible

There are many ways in which you can preserve the preschool art of your children. These are priceless reminders of their childhood, and years later, when they are seen again, they would bring back so many wonderful memories. The challenge is to keep preschool art long enough and well stored, so that your child, when an adult, can connect with their childhood later.

Make a huge scrapbook – you could use a dated scrapbook, and each and every little thing that your child makes can be put in there. There are special plastic covers that can hold your precious documents safe from humidity and ravages of time. You could also laminate these and freeze them in plastic for posterity. This scrapbook can make an excellent gift to your child, when he or she expects their first child, or when they celebrate their 18th birthday.

Use the art for greeting cards. You could use the designs your child creates to make custom-made greeting cards for Christmas and New Years. This can make your child extremely proud and encouraged. The greeting cards too, would be unique and special, which would add that special touch for the holidays.

Use the preschool art designs as designs on t-shirts of your child. You could create some out-of-this-world t-shirts with the designs your child makes, and appropriate tongue-in-cheek sayings/proverbs/quotations. This can work as a great hobby for you, and excellent encouragement for your youngster.

Use the designs for home applications. You could use these designs to make cushion covers, bed sheets, coffee mugs, table clothes, and so on. Today, it is very easy to transfer anything on anything. Hence, there would not be too much of a headache to use such designs for your home. Besides the fact that you would have some exceptionally beautiful and unique items, there is nothing than could appreciate and encourage your child better.

Choose anything from the above, or use your own ideas to use the preschool art of your child to make some excellent memorabilia. It is easy, it is fun – and your child will love you for it.

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Is your preschooler getting tired of playing Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders?  Are you?

There will come a time when you and your preschool aged children can’t seem to find a game to play.  They will tell you that Candy Land is a baby game yet they cannot seem to find the patience to sit through an entire game of Sorry.

This is when it is time to search out games that are a little more advanced, yet not too time consuming.  At our house we recently found success with two fun games: Guess Who and Operation.  Our seven year old had received these games for Christmas and his birthday.  The recommended age on the box says for ages 6+ but our three year old is able to play both of them (with a few modifications).

Idea of the Day:

Try Guess Who and Operation if you are looking for new games at your house.

Helpful Tips for playing with preschoolers:

Operation:

- If you have smaller children, this game does have small pieces that a child could easily swallow!

- The newer version has different settings for beginners to experienced players.  This helps to allow a younger child to play.

- This game is great for building fine motor skills.  Learning to use the tweezers helps build finger, hand and wrist muscles.

- Do remember as a child playing Operation and getting a shock when it touched the sides?  The new version doesn’t do that anymore.  Not sure if children were afraid of this feature or if Milton Bradley received too many complaints.

Guess Who:

- Go through the pictures with your child to point out differences: glasses, hat, blond hair, etc.

- Teach your children what it means to have facial hair.

- Explain that they have to ask a “yes or no” question.

- Have your child play a practice game with you to see how to play.  It usually only takes one or two practice games before they understand the concept.