mixing color

Printmaking with paper hearts

Valentine’s day themed art can be as simple as printmaking with paper hearts. With just a few materials that are readily found around your home or classroom, your children can create beautiful heart-shaped prints.

Fantastic foil fold-over paintings

Exploring the wonderful process foil fold-over painting in our pre-k class.

Test tube color mixing and painting | Teach Preschool

Exploring colors is super fun with this simple test tube painting activity!

A colorful outdoor game for preschoolers to play

Get outside and play this simple color mix-up game. A great way to give those large motor skills a workout!

Powder paint science and art

The children spent time exploring art and science with powdered tempera paint.

The wonders of bright and colorful gelatin

Exploring color, texture, water, and temperature through our play with gelatin squares in preschool!

Tie dyeing chenille stems

Tie dying chenille stems through this simple process to make beautiful stars in preschool….

Snow scientists at play

We decided we were snow scientist in preschool today!

Pretty pink and blue car painting in preschool

Our car painting turned into a surprise lesson on color mixing!

Handprint color mixing in preschool

This is a super fun process for exploring color mixing with the colors red, yellow, and blue!

Exploring color sticks in preschool

Color mixing, constructing, patterning, and exploring our color Popsicle sticks in our preschool classroom!

Fun with puffy paint and cupcakes in preschool

Making puffy paint icing for our paper cupcakes in preschool.

Ketchup and Mustard waterplay

Along with our dramatic play with the grill, our painting on the grill, and our ketchup and mustard squeeze painting, we enjoyed some ketchup and mustard waterplay… The original intent of this water table was to wash and dry dishes (which they did earlier that day) but the boys wanted to squeeze the left over yellow [...]

International mud day: making rainbow mud paint

The point of international mud day is to get messy. Had it been a weekend where I could just let loose and have a mud jamboree, perhaps I would have but I just didn’t have one spare minute this week. I did do some experimenting yesterday and I hope you will enjoy this mildly messy International [...]

DIY: colorful discs for the light table in preschool

I am not so lucky as my sweet friend Leeanne over at Kreative Resources who managed to find a free set of plexiglass discs to use on her light table. In fact, I don’t even have a light table! But after reading several ideas from others, I have managed to make my own discs and [...]

Experimenting at home for preschool

Sometimes I will come across an idea that I really love but can’t necesarily decide how I want to implement it in the classroom…. I have seen this idea a couple of times now with the first time being at Irresistible Ideas for Play Based Learning. I folded a paper towel into one long strip and [...]

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