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Personal relationships
with peers
Have a Sunny Day
Tape a large piece of butcher paper onto a table.
Activities and Strategies
for Development
Invite two children at a time to come to the table, put on a smock, and
finger paint with yellow paint next to each other. Have paper towels handy
to clean up any spills. Set up the painting activity near a sink to make it easy
to wash the children’s hands when they are done.
When everyone who wants to paint is finished, hang the paper to dry.
When it is completely dry, cut the paper into the shape of a sun, write
“Have a sunny day” on it, and hang it on your classroom door to greet
parents and visitors.
Talk to the children about how they all worked together to make a sign for
the door.
Special Needs Tip
Some children do not like to put their hands in paint. Have
sponges available.
Ping Pong Paintings
You will need a large cardboard box lid, such as one from a carton of copy paper,
and two ping pong balls or golf balls.
Cut out pieces of construction paper to fit in the bottom of the lid. Put a dab
of washable red paint in the middle of the paper. Put the ping pong balls on the
paper, too.
Sit on the ground with one child sitting at one end of the lid and another child
at the other. Help them tilt the lid from side to side to make the ping pong balls
roll through the red paint.
Add a second color and help the two children tilt the lid some more. Talk about
the new color they made by working together! Put both children’s names on the
painting and hang where visitors can see.
Rinse off the ping pong balls and repeat with two new children and other paint
colors.
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