![]() ![]() Standard sized Art Panels for childcare centers are 2’x3’, and each has a small shelf 12” off the ground. Other centers have tubes and plastic channels that can be arranged so sand and water flows from one to the other. Some people have magnetic animals, trees, and so on, so that “scenes” can be created. It offers all kinds of artistic, creative, and imaginative play and learning options, from writing/drawing on the panels with differently-colored chalk, to sticking magnetized objects on them. Writing with chalk directly on these washable playground art panels, or on paper attached to them, gives children a place to express themselves. ![]() Two-sided Chalk Panels are made of steel with a coating of outdoor chalkboard paint, so magnetized items will stick to them. It’s well known that children’s art develops hand and eye coordination, stimulates perception, allows exploration of ideas, encourages creative solutions, enhances critical thinking, provides a way to reflect on feelings, and allows children to be more self-aware and to express thoughts or emotions in new ways, so these outdoor Chalk Panels should play a critical role in your outdoor curriculum. These are also great for an outdoor classroom, and can easily be installed in front of sitting stumps or slab or other benches spaced 6 safe feet apart. 33% of children are visual learners, and children who make art read better and get better grades, so art should be an important activity outside as well, because the outdoor environment stimulates all kinds of sensations that children can’t get inside.
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