Stepping Stones Child Care

10/15/2026

10/15/2026

Happy Happy birthday Rock Star!!!

10/08/2026

👀👂👃👅🖐️ Exploring Our Senses Through Art! 🎨

Our preschoolers had so much fun learning about their five senses through hands-on art experiences! We explored what it feels like to create without using our sense of sight and created texture collages to discover how different materials feel.

🎨 Painting With Our Eyes Closed: Painting with our eyes closed encouraged the children to rely on their other senses, especially touch and hearing. It helped them understand that we use our senses to explore and learn about the world around us. This activity also encouraged children to slow down, listen to directions, use their imagination, and experience the process of creating in a new way.

🖐️ Texture Collages: Creating texture collages allowed children to explore materials that were smooth, rough, soft, bumpy, fuzzy, and hard. They practiced describing what they felt and comparing different textures while strengthening their sensory awareness.

✋ Fine Motor Skills: Picking up, placing, gluing, and manipulating different materials helped strengthen the small muscles in their hands and fingers.

🧠 Cognitive Development: Children practiced observing, comparing, sorting, describing, and making connections between their senses and the world around them.

💬 Language Development: Talking about how materials felt and what they noticed introduced new descriptive vocabulary and encouraged children to communicate their ideas.

💡 Problem-Solving & Confidence: Creating without sight encouraged children to think differently, try new strategies, and become comfortable exploring outside of their usual routines.

Most importantly, these activities gave our preschoolers the opportunity to learn through touching, seeing, listening, creating, and exploring! We love turning hands-on experiences into meaningful learning opportunities. 🖐️🎨

10/08/2026

🖐️🎨 Learning Through Friendship & Art! 🎨🖐️

The preschoolers had so much fun tracing their hands with a friend and decorating them with paint sticks! This simple activity was a wonderful way to combine creativity, friendship, and important developmental skills.

💕 Friendship & Social Skills: Working with a friend encouraged cooperation, sharing, taking turns, and communicating with one another. Children practiced being kind and respectful while working together.

✋ Fine Motor Development: Using paint sticks strengthened the small muscles in their hands and fingers, which are important for writing, cutting, buttoning, and other everyday skills.

👀 Hand-Eye Coordination: Tracing around their hands helped children practice coordinating what they see with the movements of their hands.

🧠 Body Awareness: Children learned more about their own bodies as they identified and traced their hands, fingers, and individual features.

🎨 Creativity & Self-Expression: Choosing colors and decorating their hand tracings allowed children to express their own ideas and make their artwork unique.

💪 Confidence & Independence: Completing their own artwork gave children a sense of accomplishment and pride in what they created.

🤝 Building Classroom Community: Creating art with a friend helped children develop a sense of belonging and showed them that learning and creating together can be fun!

This activity was more than just making beautiful artwork—it was an opportunity to build friendships, strengthen little hands, practice cooperation, and celebrate what makes each child unique! 🖐️💗🎨

10/08/2026

Why we do what we do!!!