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A fun way to change up the painting process is by offering different materials to paint with. We changed up the painting experience and invited the children to explore the process of painting with mittens…
Before we began painting with mittens, we gathered together for morning circle and read “The Three Little Kittens“ by Paul Galdone. This book features the classical folktale of the three little kittens who have lost their mittens, complete with beautiful illustrations and wonderful words that rhyme. It is a simple to read version of the tale and our class loved it…
We then played a fun mitten matching game…
In this game, each child chose one mitten from the collection of mittens we had spread out on the floor and placed the mitten on one hand. When the music played, the children went around the classroom looking for who might have on their matching mitten. We played several rounds of our mitten matching game, and as we played, the children got the hang of it and became more invested and excited to find their matching mitten…
Next we moved on to our centers. Mitten painting was offered at the art table. For this simple and fun activity, a variety of paint was set out along with paper plates, mittens, and large sheets of paper…
The children put the mittens on their hands and then chose which colors of paint they wanted to use. They squeezed their paint out onto the paper plates and then pushed their mitten into the paint. A few children chose to squeeze the paint directly onto their mittens…
When pressed onto the paper, the mittens left a perfect print (most of the time)…
Of course, some children didn’t stop at just leaving prints. Some children wanted to cover their whole paper. So they stamped away until their whole paper was covered. The mittens left a beautiful texture in the paint…
Who knew that mittens could be used to make such interesting prints?
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What beautiful results they got using the mittens! Love them!
brilliant!!!
adding this to my lesson plan ideas.
thank you!
You are amazing
Your ideas are always innovative and challenging.
Making your students think outside the box
Thank you for sharing
AWASOME IDEA! I’LL TRY IT! I’LL PROMISE & THEN LET U KNOW! HUGS & KISSES FROM ARGENTINA!
OMG, I’m dying- this is the cutest idea ever! Serves all of those random mittens right to be painted with. I cannot wait to try this with my 3 year old.
We have a bunch of those random mittens too!
This looks like too much fun. It really made me smile! Fantastic idea. I’ll have to see if my son will do it. He’s not fond of paint on his hands, but the mittens might be different.
What a wonderful idea! I have some old gloves that I could use.
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