Free Painting

What is "free painting" you ask??? :) Well sometimes doing the same stuff gets boring in my classroom. Yes I understand we need to learn the required alphabet and phonics for learning. But sometimes we just want to get messy and paint something. I dont know about you!!!! But I absolutely despise being told what to paint lol. I want you to give me some paints and a brush and walk away!!! :) So here in "my classroom" that is exactly what I do. The children are given some paints and a brush and I walk away. They can paint anything they wish (being in the parameter of awesome and fantastic) as long as they give their painting a title. Today I had some far out titles......for example "Windy Day", "Running", "The Big Bad Wolf" just to name a few. Self expression in my opinion is the very important in preschool. How will we ever know who we are as a person if we cant express ourselves freely in everything we do? Some might find this next part disturbing.......but in my classroom there is no such thing as "staying in the lines" or a "red apple". If you want to color your whole paper blue, hey more power to you child!!! If you want to color that apple with every color in your box...........WOW then I might think your the most amazing child ever. So hey heres to all of us that never colored in the lines. Who knows, we might be teachers someday. ;)                          Ms. Juarez