Virtual Pop-Up Studio by Lydia Roos

Goal CD-3: Children demonstrate the ability to think about their own thinking: reasoning, taking perspectives, and making decisions.

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Try to reach logical conclusions (including conclusions regarding cause and effect) about familiar situations and materials, based on information gathered with their senses. CD-2y

Express understanding that others may have different thoughts, beliefs, or feelings than their own (“I like ketchup and you don’t.”). CD-3j

Goal CD-1: Children use their senses to construct knowledge about the world around them.

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Recall and imitate patterns of beat, rhythm, and movement as they create dances or participate in movement and dance activities. CD-5v

Express knowledge gathered through their senses using play, art, language, and other forms of representation. CD-1l

Goal LDC-4: Children speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

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Use a growing vocabulary that includes many different kinds of words to express ideas clearly. LDC-7p

Use language and nonverbal cues to communicate thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and intentions. LDC-4j

Key Concepts

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-Identity

-Creativity

-Imagination

-Senses

-Perspective

-Expressive

-Understanding

-Visualization

Quality Questions

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-How does your identity affect your art and creativity?

-How can creativity help to express your ideas or thoughts in your work?

-How does imagination help improve your art and the things you draw?

-How does your senses influence the way you see things and experience the world?

-How can you improve your perspective to see other's sides to situations?

-How can you use different materials or forms to express yourself?

-In what ways can understanding help when talking to someone?

-How can visualization help with creativity and imagery?

Colored Buttons

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Colorful buttons of different shapes and sizes can help children use their imagination as to what the shapes can be used for in their artwork. It is similar to the finger painting artwork since they both allows children to explore their minds.

Fun Foam

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Fun foam will allow children to access their creativity in what they can make. Using this mold they can make all sorts of shapes, animals, etc.

Pipe cleaners

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Pipe cleaners can help children develop fine motor skills and explore their creativity and imagination. It can also help with emotional wellness and benefit their creative fun in the classroom

Slime

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Slime has become popular fairly recently and has been proven to benefit kids with improving their focus. It helps stimulate the senses with the way it feels and can help kids with anxiety to stay more calm. It is great for sensory breaks.

Water Colors

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Water colors can benefit children's hand-eye coordination as well as their fine motor skills. It can help with brain development since it allows for endless art activities. Children can paint their perspectives and story tell through their artwork.

Play Dough

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Play dough can be used with numerous art activities and incorporate sculpting different animals or items. This benefits children by helping them with their problem solving skills and allow them to remember things they have seen to create their art.

Construction Paper

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Construction paper can be used for any project planned for a child. Whether it is a drawing or a 3D item, there is plenty of uses for it. This can allow children to explore their creativity and mature them if they are using glue and scissors. It can also encourage color recognition and provides an medium for their artistic expression.

Chalk

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Chalk can help children build confidence by allowing them to express themselves and tap into their imagination. It can also help children with their thinking and enhances their learning to a more interactive way.

Glitter Glue

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Glitter glue can encourage children to draw from their perspective and help understand certain things. It is also a sensory stimulation and will enhance their creativity.

Stencils

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Stencils can help children become familiar with different shapes and pictures. It will help with recognition int he future and acts as a guide to assist children. It can help boost their confidence as they become more familiar with the shapes and benefit their motor skills as they become more comfortable with different shapes, lines, and forms.

Loose Parts Motor Bottle Activity

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This activity allows for children to activate their motor skills by giving them different materials such as yarn, ribbon, pipe cleaners, feathers, etc. The challenge is for children to figure a way to get the materials inside which the yarn and ribbon tends to be more challenging than the others. It is a great hands-on learning experience to improve their cognitive abilities.

Button Art

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Buttons can create a fun memory for kids as it allows them to tap into their imagination and get creative by using different shapes and sizes. These crafts will help keep them engaged and encourage curiosity. It is also a way for them to practice learning their colors and what colors they associate with different objects.

Painting Crafts

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Painting crafts can help children explore their creativity. They can explore new colors by combining ones given to them and adapt to creating different shapes and images. It allows them to use their imagination and paint a picture that is in their memory and shows us their perspective.

Sensory Activities - Play Dough

lar2498 — 2025-03-01 00:23:14 UTC

Play dough promotes creativity and develops children's motor skills. Giving them specific creations like a lion or a dog will allow them to use their memory in what they indicate that creation as. It is also a sensory activity that allows them to squish it, pull it, cut it up, and shape it. They will remember the way it smells and feels and create something up to their imagination.

Painted Pasta Jewelry

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Painted Pasta Jewelry is a way for children to use all different kids of motor skills and problem-solving. When putting the pasta onto the necklace children are forced to manipulate the string through the hole which develops their hand movements. They are able to express themselves with whatever designs or patterns they hope for. They are learning how to overcome obstacles if they were to reach a difficult point and develop their problem-solving skills. It also helps to build their confidence with the freedom of their art.