Summertime is a wonderful opportunity for children and parents to build special memories and discover hours of simple fun. Kids can create a masterpiece painting with milk-based paint or use a mixture of shaving cream and glue to make a puff paint mural. (Recipe below) Write secret codes to one another with invisible ink and then hide them around the house or in the yard. Combine imagination, pasta plus glue and you can design a “Pasta Creation” with different shapes of pasta, or go for a nature walk and build a picture from whatever treasures you collect. Abundant ideas can be found in the many books we have here at The Monroe County Public Library Children’s Department. A few titles you might consider are:
Glues, Brews, and Goos
Vols. 1 & 2
By Diana F. Mark
Making Art with Sand and Earth
By Gillian Chapman and Pam Robson
Kids’ Crazy Art Concoctions
By Jill Frankel Hauser
Here’s a simple recipe for Puffy Paint!
Mix equal parts white glue and foamy shaving cream – color with some food coloring.
Paint an original work of art and then let it dry – paint will puff up!
*Remember!
Crafty Creations
Our Tuesday morning art program begins again June 25th at 10:45 am!
There are so many everyday opportunities to talk with your young child about letters and numbers and other early literacy concepts -- things your child knows about reading and writing before they can actually read and write. You can point out letters on street signs and store names, or note the numbers on speed limit signs and addresses on buildings. We are reinforcing this idea that developing a child's knowledge of letters, numbers, colors, shapes, sizes, etc. can happen in small ways every day, by creating "Early Literacy Spot" activities throughout the children's area of the Main Library.