- CD or tape player
- finger paint supplies
- paper
- various music recordings
- music
- paint
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Language/L.PK.MA.6 Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 3 Communicate personal experiences or interests.
Dancing Fingers
© Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Early Education and Care (Jennifer Waddell photographer). All rights reserved.
Skill Focus: Creative Expression, Fine Motor Skills, Vocabulary
Invite children to paint to some music using their fingers. Play a music recording for children. Direct their attention to the materials and ask, What colors do you think you should use to paint to this (loud, exciting) music? Provide paper for children to paint. Encourage children to use their color vocabulary and their sound and music vocabulary to describe their paintings. Repeat with a different style of music.
Social Emotional Tip: Finger painting provides children with a safe, fun way to relieve stress and express their feelings.