It is that spooktacular time of year where we make our annual Cardboard Haunted Mansion near our Outdoor Interactive Painting Gallery & Art Studio. The beauty of cardboard & process art is that anything and everything can be used as a canvas or morphed into something creative. Cardboard is such a versatile material that provides a great surface to paint on. Since it comes in so many different sizes, textures, & shapes it allows the children to explore art in a different medium, use their imagination to think of a range of ways to paint cardboard boxes, & promotes collaboration as the children can work together to paint and talk about what they are creating.
Since the children are so excited for Halloween we decided to honor their current interests and assemble a "Haunted Mansion," with recycled boxes and let them paint with Colorations Tempera Paint from Discount School Supply! This inspired so much excitement and engagement as the children transformed and reinvented these boxes into a spooky house!
Through painting children enhance their fine & gross motor development, hand-eye coordination and control, openness to experiment/take risks with tools provided, build stronger social and emotional skills, further develop their language as they express what they are doing in the process, and continue to have the avenue of using their most powerful capability creativity + imagination.
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