It is amazing what you can find in your closet when you decide to organize it. While cleaning a few months back, I came across a whole bag full of these black foam stickers. There were different sizes of circles and rectangles. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with them, but I stuck them in my art closet to use later. Last week when I was trying to decide what I was going to put in my art center, I came across these foam stickers again. I had a sudden epiphany and decided they would make great pumpkin faces for Halloween.
I put out some copies of pumpkin templates, some crayons, scissors, and the stickers (in a cute Halloween bucket), and waited for the kids to discover it. The art easels are close to our cubbies, so they are visible to the kids right away when they come in. It didn't take them long to discover the pumpkins and want to start in on them right away.
These are a few of the pumpkins my kiddos made. Many more were proudly taken home to show their moms and dads. This was some great fine motor skills practice for my kiddos. Some of the stickers were hard to peel, which really made them work for it at times, and they were so proud of themselves when they were able to peel the stickers off by themselves! It's was a very popular place to be, and the kids kept returning to the center day after day to create more pumpkin masterpieces!
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