Painting

Scrunched paper printing in preschool

March 4, 2011

This has to be one of the most simple, yet fun and easy to throw together painting activities ever! Simply set out a variety of paint colors, a piece of paper, and scrap paper… The children “scrunched” up the scrap paper…. Then dipped the scrunched paper into paint and made prints on their paper canvas… [...]

P is for pink polk-a-dots in preschool

February 7, 2011

Each week, the teachers at our school continue to focus on a letter of the week. This isn’t the only time that the children will explore a given letter but it is an opportunity to give a letter some special attention. This week the focus was on the letter P! I noticed that focusing on [...]

Messing around with the color brown in preschool

January 15, 2011

As part of our color review week, the children tried out a little brown finger painting but instead of using brown paint, they used chocolate pudding. After mixing up a bowl of chocolate pudding, they dipped their fingers in the pudding and began making brown pudding prints on a piece of paper… To this point [...]

Preschoolers like driving through a snow storm

January 2, 2011

I didn’t really have a plan for this activity and it isn’t something that will probably get hung up on the refrigerator but Wy had a terrific time with it… I set out a sheet of black construction paper and put a few dots of white paint on the paper. I told Wy that we [...]

We made spilt milk in preschool

November 27, 2010

The book titled “It Looked Like Spilt Milk” by Charles G. Shaw has always been one of my favorite books to share in preschool. Today, the children read the book then we made spilt milk pictures… In one of our classes, the children used a bottle filled with white paint to make their pictures. The [...]

Painting with Indian corn in preschool

November 18, 2010

The two year olds were enjoying this simple fall painting experience… Paper plates filled with yellow, orange, and green paint were set out… The children rolled the corn cobs in the paint… Then they rolled the painted corn on a piece of paper… The children in this class do a lot of painting. I think [...]

We painted with cranberries in preschool

November 11, 2010

I enjoyed reading the idea of painting with cranberries from Little Wonder Days and shared the idea with some of our teachers. The children started by squishing up a bunch of cranberries we got from the grocery store. Then the cranberries, along with the juice, was set out in bowls with paint brushes. I didn’t [...]

Evaluating lesson plans in preschool

November 4, 2010

I write a lot of lesson plans and I never know how well something will turn out until I see it in action. One of the best ways to evaluate lesson plans is to observe children in action. When evaluating lesson plans, some questions to ask yourself might include… Were the children interested in the [...]

Simple idea for mixing paint colors in preschool

November 3, 2010

This simple color mixing idea came from ABC’s of Jess’s House and I thought it was so cute that I shared it with our teachers and we gave it a try! To start out, gather some plastic zip-lock baggies and two colors of paint you want your children to mix up! Use a permanent marker [...]

Painting with cotton balls in preschool

November 3, 2010

This is a simple activity that we did for Letter C week! We painted with cotton balls! The teacher set out red, blue, and orange paint and a pile of cotton balls for the children to paint with. The children simply pressed the cotton balls in the paint then printed with the cotton balls on [...]

Painting with hammers on houses in preschool

November 2, 2010

Another activity we tried in preschool was painting with hammers on houses! I wasn’t able to catch this activity in action but here is the basic idea… A simple white house shape is glued to black construction paper… The children draw doors and windows on their houses. Dip the head of a toy hammer in [...]

Painting with acorns and an oatmeal container in preschool

October 14, 2010

A fan on my Facebook page recently shared how you can use an oatmeal container for marble painting and I thought this was such a clever idea. I had never thought of it before so we decided to try it with acorns as part of our fall theme. We started off by putting a piece [...]

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