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Goal CD-5: Children demonstrate self-expression and creativity in a variety of forms and contexts, including play, visual arts, music, drama, and dance. 

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Goal CD-5: Children demonstrate self-expression and creativity in a variety of forms and contexts, including play, visual arts, music, drama, and dance. 

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Explore the properties of art materials and use them with purpose to draw, paint, sculpt, and create in other ways. CD-5o

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messy

colorful

fun

creating something new

being free of directions

enjoyment

trial and error

artistry

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How can you create different types of lines using your paint and paint brush?

What would happen if you used a different tool for painting? Could you try to use a different tool, like a rolling pin or your fingers?

Can you express the way you feel right now through your artwork? What colors would you choose to reflect your feelings?

How could you do things differently next time to get the result you wanted?

Can you tell me how you created this portion of your art? What type of materials did you use when creating?

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Children can use paint for many art projects. Paint is a key resource for art time.

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Paint brushes aid children in fine motor development because children use their muscles to grasp the brush. Paint brushes allow for children to paint intricate lines or shapes. Paint brushes are awesome for students that do not like getting messy with their hands.

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Tissue paper is great for collage art. Having children use scissors to cut or their hands to rip the tissue paper is helpful to develop fine motor skills.

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Glue is essential for art that involves layering or putting materials together. Both glue sticks and bottled glue are good for fine motor (grasping and squeezing).

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Scissors are used for cutting paper into different shapes or lines. Scissors are an excellent tool for helping children gain fine motor skills.

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Rolling pins can be used for rolling paint on paper to create art. They also are awesome for rolling out clay, play dough, sand, etc.. They also help develop fine motor and hand-eye coordination skills.

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Blank construction paper is a great basic resource for drawing, cutting, painting, stamps, stickers, collages, and so much more! Paper is very versatile and crucial during art time.

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Water can be used to create unique pieces of art! Some examples are: water color painting, tissue paper/paper painting, and even side walk painting. Water is also great for diluting glue for yarn art, which I have done with my preschoolers many times.

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This article by Lovely Commotion Preschool Resources provides a variety of ideas on how to expand the painting process and highlights trying new things. The website lists many different "unusual tools" to try painting with such as toothbrushes, food items (fruit), food utensils, and cars, feathers, and the list goes on! This article also touches on different things to paint on other than paper/canvas. Some ideas were a tree trunk, foil, ice cubes, CDs, and more!

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Process Art- Beyond the Paintbrush - Lovely Commotion Preschool Resources

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Process art in preschool allows for exploration and unique creativity. Learn about ideas for going beyond the paintbrush with process art.

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In this Kinder Art website post, the authors discuss how to create a landscape photo with tissue paper, glue, and water as the main materials. This process art involves layering tissue paper on top of tissue paper using a glue and water mixture to hold everything in place. They note the importance of using "bleeding tissue paper" so that the colors of the paper can run and make a beautiful picture.

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Tissue Paper Landscape Lesson Plan: Painting for Kids - KinderArt

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This lesson involves the application of many layers of tissue paper to create a painted image - a tissue paper landscape.

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In this PBS Kids article, the author Fred Rogers shows us a new way to make Piñatas! The materials needed are tissue paper (and other materials) to decorate however children what, glue, a recycled box, and a piece of string. Children can decorate the box and then have adults assist with cutting a small whole for small prizes to come out! The string is added to the "door" of the whole to open it. Instead of breaking it to get the prizes, children pull the string to let all the prizes fall out. This technique allows for the piñata to be reused many times!

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Make Alma’s No-Break, Pull-String Piñata | Crafts for Kids

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Pinatas are a way, way, way exciting part of many celebrations! Make your own and reuse it again and again.

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Recycled resources: Card board box, cereal box, popsicle sticks, paper, etc..

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Recycled resources: Card board box, cereal box, popsicle sticks, paper, etc..

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Recycled resources are great for making creative items like a piñata, gift boxes, mystery prize boxes and more! Cardboard is also fun to coloring or paint on. Popsicle sticks are great for making puppets or signs.

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This process art project by FunLittles gives us directions on how to create art using just paper and water! Children can tear up all the paper themselves which is working their small hand muscles. Then children spread water onto their blank paper. The next step is to add the colorful paper in a way that they like, creating something such as a flower. Then the children would add more water to the top and let it dry. Then they would peel the paper up, revealing the colors the paper left behind! This project is said to be "open ended" by the authors.

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Easy art project for kids : Just Add Water Art

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This is a very easy to set up water art project for kids ages 2 and above. All you need are crepe paper ( streamer paper) and water. I had crepe paper which com(...)

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In this article on the Mosswood Connections site, they highlighted this point "kids learn and experience matters more than a specific result." The article then continues on to show us how to create this textured art. They used textured materials (flour), popsicle sticks for mixing, glue, and paint. The children mixed the paint and textured materials along with the glue for stickiness in a cup. Then the children painted with the popsicles sticks using their hands small muscle groups. Then the authors highlighted how the children loved to touch and explore the textured paint, they mention the process was experience enough, they did not need an end product to hang up, it was about the process.

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Exploring Paint and Textures Process Art Activity - Mosswood Connections

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Exploring Paint & Textures: Process Art Activity. Kids have fun with textures and paint with this process art activity. Textured paint is fun sensory play.

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Items for sensory/texture painting: Flour, salt, etc..

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Items for sensory/texture painting: Flour, salt, etc..

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Textured items are great for sensory input and to make cool, textured art projects. This items would also be great for a sand box in the classroom!