

Want to try a little preschool book club of your own? You can see the entire series here. A singular work of imagination, creativity, and paper engineering, Beautiful Oops is filled with pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, tears, holes, overlays, bends, smudges, and even an accordion telescopeeach demonstrating the magical transformation from blunder to wonder. and needed something to reduce the swelling. I kept it in my freezer for seven months. you stole an enormous one from a neighbor’s drooping shingle. Beautiful Oops is an engaging and interactive book about creativity to get your students thinking about how they can make something wonderful from their mistakes. Straw blow painting | painting on torn newspaper | folded paper animals | circle and hole art The winter I told you I think icicles are magic. Ready to see what our Preschool Book Club friends did with this book? Check out these awesome projects: Grae absolutely loved the process of creating this piece together and actually said, ‘Okay, let’s do another one now’ the moment we declared this one done, so there are definitely more beautiful oops paintings in our near future!


We love this book! into something beautiful with a little creativity! The Beautiful Oops instalment of our Preschool Book Club with our friends from Buggy and Buddy, Sugar Aunts, Frogs Snails and Puppy Dog Tails, and Homegrown Friends. * This would be a lot of fun for a read aloud! You could even invite students to come up to pull the different tabs to demonstrate a mess turning into a masterpiece! There is also a YouTube video of the book with a perfect song (also titled: "Beautiful Oops") in the background. * Another idea is to have students journal about a time they have learned from a mistake! Then, encourage the students to turn the blobs of paint into something beautiful by adding their own touches on them! This lesson comes from here. * Have the art teacher hand out pieces of paper with blobs, streaks, or mistakes on them. Perhaps give the students discarded items (candy wrappers, old magazines, broken toys) to use to create found art! Barney Saltzberg, the effervescent spirit behind Good Egg, offers a one-of-a-kind interactive book that shows young readers how every mistake is an opportunity. After reading it, have the art teacher demonstrate how she can turn an artwork "mistake" into something beautiful. Here, a blob of paint with a few strokes becomes a frog, and a balled up piece of garbage becomes the fleece of a lamb! Collaborate with an art teacher when reading this book aloud. * Barney Saltzberg's concept book Beautiful Oops is truly engaging for students. Themes: Acceptance of imperfection, avoiding self-criticism, creativity Unique in every respect, this book is full of pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, tears, holes, overlays, bends, smudges, and more, each demonstrating how blunders can.
