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Year of the Pig!

Year of the Pig! 

Happy Chinese New Year!
      Today at ArtMix I learned the proper way to help 3 year olds stamp stamps (Oh yes, there is a proper way). So here is what you DON'T DO! 1. Give Paint and Stamps to 3 year olds. They are three year olds and they will NOT figure it out on their own. 2. DO NOT give the students the stamp with paint on it. IF you give your student the stamp they don't understand the concept of waiting. So looking at what they stamped they don't understand the whole "count to 3!" concept. 3.Push the stamp with the students. When you push with the students they DO NOT pay attention to what they are doing at all. They are 3 and they honestly don't care.  The proper way to help stamp a stamp is to do it for them. Get there attention, put there hands on the stamp and make them count to three. Also make it fun! You have ta act like the stamp is the MOST IMPORTANT thing in the ENTIRE world. Anyway It was the Chinese New Year was this Tuesday February 5, 2019 (year of the pig!). So this week at ArtMix we talked about China and celebrated the new year by making a pig! painting traditional colors! 

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