Early Learning
Preschool Art Classes
Term 3: 21 July 2012 – 15 September 2012
Each session includes an interactive tour or exploration of the Museum
and art activities inspired by your exploration in our dedicated creative
learning space. Quiet activities available for early finishers.
Week
1
21st July
Exploring
Structure
2
28th July
Music in
Art
3
4th Aug
Exploring
Chalk
4
11th Aug
Illusions
in Art
5
18th August
Yummy
Art
Activity
(subject to change)
Playdough isn’t just for squishing!
Discover how this beloved medium
can be used to explore texture,
printing and sculpture.
Make dough
Create stamp to use in dough
Random object stamping
Suncatcher
Music in art is fun and easy to
make yourself and can really
change the way you feel and
create!
Plastic Egg maracas
Bell bracelets
Box Guitar
Music drawing
Chalk is used on blackboards in
homes everywhere but I bet you
haven’t seen it used like this.
Painted chalk drawings
Chalk stencils
Painting with powdered chalk
Stamping with pastels and sponges.
Sometimes in art, things are not
quite what they seem...
Magic changing pictures
Fizzing paint
Black colour changing flowers
Colour dip painting
Magic Packing peanut sculpture.
Sometimes art can be made using
unusual and tasty things.
Glue and spice pictures
Plaster cupcakes
Jelly finger painting
M&M painting
Coloured rice and sugar on contact
collages
Learning Target
Understand what a
sculpture is.
Strengthen fine motor.
Use multiple senses in
play.
Introduction to printing
and texture.
There are lots of ways
to make music.
Sounds can effect
emotions which show
through in drawings.
Pastel is an ancient
drawing medium.
This medium can be
used in many different
ways.
What you see is not
always what it seems.
Different techniques are
used to create illusions
in art.
Unusual materials can
be used to create art.
Using our sense of
smell in art making
process.
Introduction to collage.
6
25th August
Exploring
Printing
Early Learning
7
1st September
Circles in
Art
8
8th September
Exploring
Crayons
9
15th September
Playing
with Art
Let’s get paint on paper without a
brush!
Party blowers
Flat sticker prints
Bubble wrap and texta
Crayon sandpaper stuffed fish
Masking tape painting
Circles are one of the first shapes
we learn and heaps of fun to create
art with.
Bingo texta spots
Confetti and glue
Bottle top prints
Paper plate chickens
Crayons can do much more than
scribble on walls. Let’s use them to
explore texture, paint with and
print.
Crayon on rocks
Wax paper laminations
Crayon colour overs
Crayon painting
Object rubbingsIt is so much more fun when you
can carry your creations around
with you to play with once they are
finished.
Roly egg aliens
Socktopus
Sand castle/ animal feet casts.
Car/ toy paint prints
Extension on print
making techniques.
How to make a work
appear 3D.
Shape recognition.
Counting and colour
recognition.
Printing follow up.
Crayons are not just for
drawing.
Knowing what texture
is and how it can be
applied to the art room.
Art can be played with
too.
Fine motor
development. Intro to
creating cast objects.
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national wool museum
26 Moorabool Street, Geelong, 3220 Tel: 03 5272 4701
Email: nwminfo@geelongcity.vic.gov.au
Web: www.nwm.vic.gov.au
Open: Mon-Fri 9.30am-5.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am-5.00pm
Closed: Christmas Day, Boxing Day and Good Friday.
Entry: Adult $7.50; Conc $6; Child $4; Family $25