Our Art Gallery

from 38 months · 30-40 min · Fine motor

What you need

Let your child choose what to make: a painting, a crayon drawing or both, as many as they like.
Once the paint is dry, ask them to pick their favourite three and help them write the first letter of their name in the corner of each.
Tape them up on a wall at their eye height, with a sticky note under each for the picture's name. Write down what they tell you.
Open the gallery: invite the family in, and let your child walk them round and tell them about each picture.

Their pictures, their choice of three, their letter in the corner: a gallery puts them in charge, and every visitor gets a story about each picture.

Marks for their name: A first letter in the corner, the way artists sign their work.
Talking about their work: Telling a visitor what's in the picture and how they made it.
Choosing their best: Picking three means deciding what they like and why.

Notice them telling a visitor something about a picture that you didn't know.

Paint dries faster on thin paper. Crayon pictures are ready straight away, so they can make those while the paintings dry.

Easier: hang one picture and do the tour for one visitor

Harder: let them make a ticket for each visitor and write their own picture names