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!

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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 […]

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...

Awesome!! Drawing with Cars ~ Marker Cars is a fun activity for kids that merges art and play

Need a creative way to demonstrate simple machines? These hands-on simple machine projects are perfect for your next lesson.

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…

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…