Snap painting is very messy in preschool

I have been wanting to try snap painting for some time now so this week I decided just to give it a go. I gave each child a metal cookie sheet that I got from the Dollar Store and set out the rubber bands we use for our DIY Geoboards.

The children have been doing a lot of designs over the past few months with our Geoboards so I invited the children to make a design with the rubberbands kind of like they do on the Geoboards…

As they added their rubberbands to their pans, they like to stop and play them like guitar strings. This was definitely a multi-sensory activity.

After the children added a few rubberbands to their pans, then we slid some paper underneath the rubberbands…

At this point, I have to say that the children added paint to their paper and rubber bands through different approaches. But the main goal was to get the rubberbands covered with some paint. I showed the children how they can add paint to their paper then pick the paper up and rub it on the rubber bands…

In the end, each child used their own method of adding paint to the rubber bands…

Once the children added paint to their paper, they held the paper up (in many cases they asked me to help them with this part) and then rubbed the rubber bands into the  paint.  Then we removed the paper with the paint on it and underneath was a clean piece of paper for the children to snap paint on…

Then the snapping began! Oh my! We had paint splattering everywhere and the kids were loving it!

They pulled back on their paint-covered rubber bands and let go to ‘snap’ the paper…

These photos do not give justice to how much paint splattering took place with this activity. I recommend you cover your tables with paper and perhaps the walls and chairs too!  Our paint was washable so we just washed everything down after we were done…

While we painted I heard words like, “This is cool!” “Can I have another piece of paper?” “Look there is paint on the wall!” “Can we use all the colors?” “You got red paint in your hair!”…

This was a great painting process – perhaps next time we will take it outdoors:)

Deborah J Stewart

Deborah J Stewart

Every time I think I know everything I need to know about teaching young children, God says, "Hold on a minute!" and gives me a new challenge.

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