Newspaper is a fun medium for exploration in preschool. We started out in circletime with reading a few headlines and hunting for a letter ‘Nn’ and different colors in our newspapers…
I brought over a random stack of newspapers to look through and each child had their own to open, fold, close, and “read” as we went along with our morning circletime…
This wasn’t a “sit and listen to me” circletime session. I simply modeled a little newspaper reading for the children as they explored their own newspapers and we talked about what they were finding through casual conversation….
After circletime, the children found a variety of newspaper activities throughout the classroom including these interesting newspaper paint brushes I made for them to paint with…
The paint brushes were strips of newspaper stapled to the end of a craft stick. I made some of the brushes with short strips of newspaper and some of them had curly strips of newspaper. I added tape to some of the brushes if they needed a little reinforcement but most of them were fine without the tape….
The children used red, black and white paint because we discovered that those were the three most used colors in the newspapers we had explored earlier that day…
After each newspaper paint brush was used, we threw the paint brushes away. They really can’t be shared or reused all that well so I made a bunch of the newspaper paint brushes in advance…
The children enjoyed discovering the color gray through this process. We really hadn’t painted with gray paint before so having a new color come from our color mixing was a nice surprise…
Who knew that black, red, and white paint would make such pretty colors?