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I recently had a parent donate a paper roll dispenser to my class and so we have been having some fun exploring different ways we can use our paper roll dispenser, besides just dispensing paper. Over the past few weeks we have been going totally tubular and placing different sizes of tubes on our dispenser for a little creative expression through painting, drawing and writing…
For painting, we put two of our tube blocks on the paper roll dispenser and set out some paint for the children to explore. The children enjoyed painting all around the tubes and turning the tubes as they went along….
Because there were two tubes and two sets of paints, most of the children explored the totally tubular center with a friend. What a great way to promote creativity, conversation, and collaboration!..
And as a reminder, you can read more about the tubes that we are painting on in my previous post titled, “Building and playing with our free tube blocks and where you can find them too“…
Not only did we do a little tube painting, but we also tried a little tube drawing only for the drawing tube, we used an oatmeal container covered with paper…
The oatmeal tube gave our students a larger canvas to work with. As each child finished drawing, we either removed the paper and added a new one to the oatmeal container or we covered the drawing with a new sheet of paper or we left it and others would come and add to the drawing that was already there. We let the children tell us what they preferred to do as we went along throughout the day…
Some of the children preferred to work alone on the drawing tube and others preferred to draw with a friend…
Instead of changing the tube, this time we kept the oatmeal container and changed out the paper from white drawing paper to black construction paper…
The children used white chalk to draw on the black construction paper…
No question that the tubular painting was the biggest favorite of the children overall but each new tube, process, and writing tool has provided its own type of interesting experience along the way…
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OH! I am doing this….today!!
Melinda
Another Great Activity, and shows how creative you’re. I’ve also used Paper Towel Tubes, Bathroom Paper Tubes, and other unwanted tubes to make Napkins Rings, storing Art Work done on paper, or canvas, using two tubes, one up and one down and paste a flyer, drawing, etc, to look as a scroll display for hanging. Thank you for always sharing so much on Children’s Activities. I also nominated you for a Blog of the year AWARD. Kindly visit my blog, and view my Award Category for your nomination. http://projectsbyMtetar.wordpress.com
I love the idea of drawing and painting on something other than a flat surface. Fantastic!
Love the use of the paper dispenser, Deborah. As always…genius!
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