Ed Emberley’s birthday is 19 October 1931. I love his thumbprint books and drawing books, and thought that an art party program would be a cool way to celebrate his birthday.
Program Plan
-Welcome and Introduction to Ed Emberley
-Book
- Go Away, Big Green Monster / Ed Emberley
-Activities
- Drawing Station
- Children could draw anything they wanted. I had a couple of Ed Emberley’s drawing books placed on the table as inspiration.
- Materials: white cardstock, colored pencils, pens.
- Fingerprint Necklace Station
- Children could make a little fingerprint art on a mini cardstock circle, and string yarn through it to make a necklace.
- Materials: white cardstock circles with paper-punch hole, string, ink pads, pens.
- Fingerprint Art Station
- Children could make fingerprint art on paper.
- Materials: white cardstock, construction paper, fancy scissors, ink pads, pens, colored pencils.
- Collage Station
- Children could use scraps of construction paper to make art.
- Materials: construction paper, glue, scissors, markers.
- My inspiration for this craft.
- Go Away, Big Green Monster Station
- Children could create a Big Green Monster on a paper plate.
- Materials: paper plates, green tissues paper, face cut-outs, glue.
- My inspiration for this craft.
Thoughts
I wanted the focus of this program to be on process-based activities. The only activity that was “cut and paste” was the Big Green Monster station. I was so happy that the participants visited every station, and they seemed to enjoy the opportunity to be creative.
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