Mine do a lot of colouring a picture that goes with whatever the theme is or related to the book we read and then I have something cut from construction paper for them to glue on. I have all under 3 and while the one can glue I find it is just easier to go around the circle and use a glue stick to put glue on an item and hand it to them and they stick it on their picture. This week we did a picture of a man in a boat fishing and I gave them fish to glue on. I had diecut a big bag of fish with the idea of making some teaching resources so as I went around the group they got to name a colour and I gave them that colour. We also coloured caterpillars for the book very hungry caterpillar. I also do a lot where I print a picture on part of the page and then they have plenty of room to colour their own thing around it or encourage them to turn the paper over and draw on the back and if some draw first and ignore the picture that is fine since the parents still learn what we are talking about. This allows them to have the creativity they want. Colouring in the caterpillar is still a form of creativity because they are free to do it any way they want.

































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