Lessons from Nanny Marie: Trucks and Cars Theme

Our art projects this week are:

Tire track painting

We used black paper for the road and got some lighter colors of paint so hopefully it would show up when dry. We just used 3 trucks Little Mr. had and we all switched. They had fun driving each of the cars around on their paper!

Shape garbage truck

I cut out a large and a small rectangle and a triangle for each of the kids. Then they glued them onto a background paper. I then cut out 2 wheels for each child. After everything was glued on I gave them the crayons to decorate their garbage truck!

So simple and cute!!

Egg carton dump truck

This was a fun craft but because the smaller ones are only 2 I had to do the assembling before I let them at it. Construction of the dump truck is not too hard. You just take half of an egg carton and cut off the top and the flap that holds it closed.

Then you cut out the two middle cups. You then place the top and the cups you cut out onto the other part. Glue it together as best you can. I had to glue the bed part back on after they painted because I did not allow the glue to dry before painting but it was not a problem.

Then I let the kiddos paint their dump truck! We mixed up some "black" paint and painted the wheels then they painted the rest whatever color they wanted.