Painting with a purpose

Part of the Responsive Classroom Approach is opening the classroom together, building that community, and understanding each center (how to play, clean up, and share materials).  Monday we opened the art easel together; we learned to paint! Preschool is a messy beautiful place! There are a lot of steps to deciding to paint-the best part was creating our first pictures (many of them painted me-so flattered!) Now that the easel is open the children can choose to paint everyday if they want. Each theme change the paint colors change but also the materials might as well (i.e. temper paint, water color, dot paint, finger paint, rollers).