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ENJOY Creating your own Creatures!

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Curriculum Development Art Workshop Chantel Gallant 100900974

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Age Group: Preschool
Materials:

Tempera paint in various colors

Cups and bottle caps in different sizes

Paper plate

Easel paper or large white construction paper

Description of Activity: use a table to make a small group that make children can paint together. Then introduced to the different tools they could use to make various colored circles. When they are painting, encourage them to try many different things, like if they mix the yellow and red, what color circles will be made? At the same time, make sure every children are be happy in this activity.

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Age Group: Toddlers

Title of Activity: Painting with Cars

Description of Activity: Set up a table where the child(ren) can paint. You will need construction paper (or normal paper is fine too!), non-toxic paint, and small toy cars for each child. Be sure to have a variety of paint colours which the children can use! Let the child choose which colour(s) they would like on their paper and place a few droplets of the paint on their page in various spaces on the page. Let the child(ren) use the toy car(s) as a paintbrush and move them around! Ask the child(ren) what they feel while they’re painting – “Does it feel bumpy when you paint with the wheels of the car?”, “Does it feel smooth when you paint with the wheels of the car?”. Also ask them things such as “What happens if you paint with *this* part of the car?” Moreover, you can also ask the child(ren) “Is there anything in particular you are painting?” It is also a great idea to ask the child(ren) about the colours they may be mixing together – “I see you’re making some new colours on the page! I see you mixed red and yellow together! Can you tell me what colour that makes? What happens if we mix *this colour* with *that colour*?!” See what cool and interesting things the child(ren) create on their page! Be sure to let them have fun and explore new and fascinating things with the paint!

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Age Group: Toddler
Materials: Toy Trucks/Buses/Cars,Washable Paint, Large Pieces of Paper, Tape and Paper Plates.
Description: Tape the paper to a surface such as a table and set up the paints on your paper plates. Have the children place the toy vehicles in the paint and then remove it from the plate of paint and then roll it along the paper to create beautiful paint tracks from the vehicles.

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Painting with wheels is a favorite action art activity here at The Artful Parent. It's great for toddlers (and big kids too!) to explore painting in a new way. So get some paint and watch as a car, digger, train (you name it!) creates colorful tracks.

Painting with wheels is a classic action art activity for kids of all ages. Here at The Artful Parent, Jean started blogging about it years back with her toddler art groups and it's still going strong as we bring you a fully updated version for the blog today.

As kids roll a vehicle in paint and then again onto paper/cardboard to print the tracks, they gaining a valuable experience through this experimentation.

Painting with a car (instead of a brush) begins to prompt the question of "what else can we paint with?"
This encourages an environment for the child to think creatively about their art and by extension their world.
If you haven't tried this yet, it's the perfect project for young toddlers who may be especially interested in trains, trucks, cars, and the like!

The setup is easy and did I mention, it's fun-even for adults like me!

Painting with Wheels - Action Art for Kids

1. Gather anything with wheels (paint rollers work great too!)

2. Prepare the rolling surface

This project can be set up inside or outside! At our recent toddler art group I laid out two painted drop cloths and placed cardboard on top.

I got a little carried away and created wood ramps, cardboard parking garages and tunnels with items from our recycling bin.

If you decide to work indoors, you may wish to tape kraft or white butcher paper to a kid-sized table as Jean did with her toddler art group. Brayers or foam painting rollers are also fun instruments for painting on paper!

The kids then moved to a 20 foot runway with lots of space to make tracks.
As you can see, there are many possibilities!

3. Start painting with wheels!

Gather paper plates, cake pans, trays, pizza pans and baking sheets to add paint onto. Remember to include a few larger paint trays to accomodate any bigger diggers or trucks that kids always seem to enjoy.

I squirted paint all over the trays and continued to refresh them as needed.

4. Time to roll!

Now comes the fun part, when it's time to set the kids loose! Painting with wheels is an easy art activity to try with your own child, with a few friends, or at an art group.
And it works well for a wide age range making it a fun art activity to try with siblings as well.
There's something rather mesmerizing and unpredictable as you watch the magic happen. I encourage you to give it a try!

And here's a fun extension of this project-add shaving cream marbling to the mix like Colors Are Magic did with their version of car painting.

Interested in more action art for kids? Try some of these fun ideas below:
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Painting with Wheels is an Easy Action Art Activity for Kids

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Painting with wheels is a favorite action art activity here at The Artful Parent. It's great for toddlers (and big kids too!) to explore painting in a new way. So get some paint and watch as a car, digger, train (you name it!) creates colorful tracks.

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Title: Tape art

Age group: 4-5 YEARS

Description: The children will tape their paper, how they like. After paint the all over the paper to reveal beautiful designs.

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Age Group:  Preschool
Description:  Use a variety of colours for the best art picture.  Place food colour, soap and a bit of water at the bottom of a paint cup.  Each child has their own straw to blow the bubbles.  Blow the bubbles until they reach the top of the container.  Take your piece of paper and place it on top of the bubbles to make your print.  Continue to do this until the child feels they have completed their picture.  Make sure to share all the colours with the children.  Allow them to choose what colours they want on their picture.
Safety Issue: Children must know how to blow using a straw.

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Blowing bubbles to make bubble art is a great way to discuss hyperbolic pressure... or to just enjoy making a mess creating colorful designs!