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What ideas does anyone have for having your Preschool students do 3 dimensional art? What supplies do you offer, how do you guide them, etc.? Thanks!
Ms M et Rocks: Large rocks, collage materials, paint

Wood Sculptures: Wood scraps (we once got a huge box of small rectangular pieces of wood about the size and thickness of the base of an old fashioned mousetraps from someone, and they were great!), wood glue, paint, collage materials

Play dough Sculptures: whip up a batch of hardenin...See More
May 28, 2012
Casey On 5/27/12, Miss Teacher wrote: > What ideas does anyone have for having your Preschool > students do 3 dimensional art? What supplies do you offer, > how do you guide them, etc.? Thanks!

We have done foil sculptures with pieces of foil that they mold into shapes of their choice. They glue them on to a piece of cardboard.
May 29, 2012
Karen PK GA I've used Model Magic and clay. We've made snakes, which is an easy one to start them out with. Every child can make a snake. We've made models of other animals when we studied those. We've also made bakery foods, like cookies, cupcakes, cinnamon rolls, and the children used them in a dramatic play bakery shop.

You can make wire sculpture...See More
May 31, 2012
meeeha/ece/hi Aloha, Miss Teacher --

I try to always have a variety of "collage" type materials available for my students to use in the ART area. To get things started toward 3-D type art activity I may sit at the table and select several items and just start playing/working with them. The kids are typically drawn to try and do things they see the adult...See More
Jun 2, 2012


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