Have you Tried? Paint on Paper cut into geometric shapes (circle, triangle, heart, triangle, star) Roll small balls or marbles through paint for cool effect Make textured painting by dabbing wet paint with bubble wrap, cookie cutters, sponge shapes, potato cut in half painting with your toes blending primary colors (red, yellow and blue) to make new colors Dipping crepe paper in water to paint Painting rocks c.2004 - 2007 |
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Recipes to Make your own Paint! Egg Yolk Paint 1 Egg (raw) 1/2 tsp of Water Food Coloring Directions: Crack open the egg and separate the yolk from the white. Put the yolk in a bowl and add the water. Mix the yolk and water well and then add some food coloring until you reach the desired color. Make several bowls of this mixture to create different colors. Use your egg yolk paint to paint lovely pictures on heavy paper. You can also use this paint to add designs on sugar cookies before they are baked! Corn Syrup Paint Just add a few drops of food coloring to a teaspoon of white corn syrup. Kool-Aid Paint 2 cups flour 2 packages unsweetened kool-aid 1/2 cup salt 3 cups boiling water 3 tablespoons oil Mix dry ingredients together, then add wet ingredients. Paint. Puff Paint 1 c. water 1 c. flour 1 c. salt Separate into different squirt bottles and add powdered paint to create a rainbow of colors. Kool-Aid Art Sprinkle kool-aid crystals onto a piece of paper. Have your child spray water from a spray bottle onto the paper. Use different colored kool-aid mix. For added adventure, you may choose to take your children out into the rain with a piece of paper that has kool-aid on it. Icing Painting icing sugar water food coloring Mix ingredient together. Let children finger-paint. Great for toddlers or anyone who likes to eat paint! Chalky Water Color colored chalk drawing paper liquid starch paintbrushes Draw picture with chalk and then brush over it with liquid starch. Watch it glow! Activity Ideas Windy DAZE We had lots of fun painting with a blow dryer with watered down tempra paint- Straw painting is another option , the kids can blow the paint on the paper without putting their straw to close to the paint. I don't recommend bubble painting with 2's as they with surely inhale the bubbles- but you can blow the bubbles for them and have them set the papr on the bubbles. For your easel project you could just let the children feel the wind from a fan or blow dryer and then let them paint what the wind would look like. Bubble Painting Materials: A bowl, a squeeze of washing up liquid, paint. Directions: Put some warm water in a bowl and add a squeeze of washing up liquid. Whisk into frothy bubbles. Add a spoon of paint and mix in gently. Carefully place a sheet of paper on the bubbles then remove to dry. There will be some lovely swirly effects Hints: Repeat the process on the same sheet of paper with different colour paints. Foil Picture Materials: card stock, rice, lentils, string, foil, shoe polish, glue. Directions: Spread glue on a postcard. Sprinkle on the rice and string etc. You may try to form a picture if you like. Cover with foil and press down gently. Rub over lightly with polish. Hints: This gives a very similar effect to that of brass rubbings! Straw Painting On a piece of paper place a few dollops of paint. Let your child blow through the straw gently to move the paint around into an abstract design. Watercolor in Salt & Glue Draw on a matte board (or other cardboard type material) square with white glue from a squeeze bottle. Squeeze out thick, bold lines. Carry the matte board to a dish tub of salt ... any kind of salt (table, rock, Epsom - even sugar will work - ... I usually use table salt) ... and rest the glue design in the tub of salt. Cover the glue lines with salt. Shake off excess. Repeat more salt to be sure all the glue is nice and thick with salt. Return to the art table. Gently touch the tip of a brush dripping with watercolor paint to the salt. Watch color Zoom through the salt. Change colors any time. The colors mix some. Let the design dry. The salt & glue will dry hard and crisp. However, if the matte board is handled too much, the salt will fall off and be crumbly and messy. You can display it with clear plastic wrap pulled over the design and taped on the back of the board. Or in a zip lock baggie. Paint Pallet 1 large plastic lid, milk caps, glue Directions: Glue several milk caps to the inside of the plastic lid. Fill each lid with a different color. Silhouette Pictures using a thick brush; cover a sheet of paper with a bright wash of watery paint. Allow to dry. Then, using a thinner brush and black paint, paint a simple picture over the top. Try deep blue with black fishes; rich green with a black cat; or bright yellow with a black teddy bear. Your own Abstract make up runny paint in different colors and drop several large blobs onto paper. Then, using a straw, get your child to blow the paint into funny lines and squiggles so all the colors mix and overlap. Snowflake Pictures fold a circle of paper in half, then half again. Snip out some shapes and open out. Clip the snowflake on top of another sheet of paper and fill in the shapes by patting with a paint-soaked sponge or rag. Allow to dry, and then remove the snowflake to reveal the pattern. Giant Rainbow young children are fascinated by rainbows. Make a giant one by painting a large sheet of paper with water, then adding big arcs of color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). The colors will slowly blend into each other. Fruit and Flowers even a young child will enjoy painting a simple still life. Put two or three pieces of fruit, or jug with a few flowers, on a table and suggest painting a picture of it. Praise your child's artistic ability as she draws. Comb Painting Materials: Comb, cardboard, flour, paint. Directions: Either cut a comb out of cardboard or use a real one. Mix flour and water to a smooth paste and add paint to colour. Spread the paste on paper and draw the comb over the paint. |
| Prop Box Resources Include the following collections of objects and materials for children to create, discover, and use for imaginary play. Store collections in boxes or baskets to be accessible at any time (indoors or outdoors) for children to enhance their play. Variety of Paper such as: Computer Paper, Water Color Paper Construction Paper paints, bingo dabbers, variety of sizes of brushes, toothbrushes, and paint rollers Ingredients to create your own paints: Kool-Aid or drink crystals white corn syrup condensed milk food coloring egg yolk |
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| "What is art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining
illusive moment which is life itself, life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose." Willa Cather |
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