How to Teach Art to Toddlers

Teaching Preschool Sculpture

• 1

  Pour 2 cups of flour into a large bowl.

• 2

  Mix in 2 cups of water and 1 cup of salt.

• 3

  Add 10 drops of a single color of food coloring into the dough, and mix the dough well to incorporate the coloring into the dough thoroughly.

• 4

  Give each child a piece of the dough to create a free-form sculpture.

Teaching Preschool Painting

• 5

  Scoop vanilla pudding into six different bowls, 1 cup of pudding each.

• 6

  Add five drops of food coloring into each bowl, making one bowl blue, one bowl red, one bowl orange, one bowl green, one bowl purple and one bowl yellow.

• 7

  Stir each bowl well with a spoon to incorporate the food coloring into the pudding completely.

• 8

  Lay a sheet of craft paper in front of the toddlers, and allow them to finger paint using the edible paints.

Teaching Preschool Pattern Making

• 9

  Cut out circles from red construction paper.

• 10

  Give each child one of the red circles and a sheet of black dot stickers.

• 11

  Instruct the children to place the dots onto the red circles to create a lady bug. Each child will create a different pattern with the dots and will benefit from the fine motor skills required to place the dots onto the paper.