Simple machines art preschool

Process Painting with Gears! Great way to link movement, motor skills, science and art. Can do patterns, color sort or free painting to suit your class needs. Fun sensory learning!

Grab those colorful toy gears during your next robot, construction, or clock theme in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Click on the Fun-A-Day.com link for more information about this unique process art experience.

These projects for simple machines are so fun and engaging for kids to make! Each science lab is hands-on and loaded with so many learning...

This is my third year teaching preschool, but it's my first year to teach a unit on machines. In the past, it's always been intimidating. Exactly how do you teach 3, 4, and 5 year olds about machines? This year, I took the plunge and I was blown away at how much they understood about machines. Here is the approach I took to teaching machines in preschool. What is a force? We read the book And Everyone Shouted Pull, by Claire Llewellyn. This is a great book to teach about forces. The book…

Investigate the concepts of force and motion with fun and engaging hands-on STEAM activities for kids. Opportunities for hands-on experimenting with various materials allows children to learn and extend their knowledge of Scientific concepts by integrating with other subjects. STEAM is the traditional STEM + Art. These STEAM activities are great extensions to further understand […]

As soon as I start preparing and planning for my simple machines unit, I know the year is coming to a close. Well… we have about two more months. Which sounds like a lifetime. Testing always sneaks up on us, but then there is three weeks of kids going crazy and antsy in the classroom! […]

During our Simple Machines unit, our final unit was on Wheels and Axles. Challenge Project – Build a Toy Car Our challenge projects are designed so that parents and children can build them to…

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{For your convenience, this post may contain affiliate links} I was out of regular spaghetti noodles the other night, but I had lots of wagon wheel pasta on hand. As it cooked, I looked at the shapes and thought they were really interesting- not only did they look like little wagon wheels, but they also looked like…