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By offering interesting materials, our children can create some very unique art, all the while exploring the concept of lines…
To extend our study of lines into our art experience, Deborah taped two paint brushes together and egg cartons were filled with a variety of paint colors. It’s important to note that the paintbrushes were taped together near the tip of the handles. This allows room for the two brushes to separate so that they may be dipped into two different paint colors at the same time…
This set-up created an interesting invitation to paint. The children were very curious about why the paintbrushes were taped together, until they saw the potential to make lines with them…
The pieces of artwork that were created were magnificent, to say the least. Each child explored this process in their own unique way…
Some children focused on creating lines: straight lines, wavy lines, horizontal lines, vertical lines…
While others explored the process of color mixing both in the egg carton paint tray and on their paper…
This little guy found dots to be more interesting than lines…
And this child felt that it was important for his lines to cover his entire paper. And what beautiful lines they are…
We also carried this activity over to our smaller table…
On this table, we provided 2-3 crayons that had been taped together and paper…
For me, the difference in how the children used the materials was thought-provoking. While most children focused on creating lines with the paintbrushes, the crayons were mainly used for drawing circles. Using interesting materials provides unique experiences and the opportunity to create some lovely works of art…
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Links to grow on:
L is for lines by Teach Preschool
Lining up craft sticks by Teach Preschool
Preschoolers painting stripes with painters tape by Kids Activities Blog
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hello! fantastic idea! thanks for sharing!
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I LOVE this!! What a stimulus for the imagination! Thanks for sharing!
What fun! This just reminded me of the trick of putting a spacer of some sort between two markers/paintbrushes to draw parallel lines…I’m going to try that with my son so he can draw his own train tracks. He loves to have me do them and then put the railroad ties in himself, although sometimes he’ll try to draw the tracks (like in the train track valentines we made http://play-trains.com/diy-train-trackvalentines/)
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