Action Painting with Preschoolers

The Pacon company sent me some free supplies to try out.  These are what I received.  Since it is the summer and I’m not teaching any classes, I decided to do a project with my daughter who is 4 years old.

We rolled out the fingerpaint paper and poured some Crayola fingerpaints .

She wanted to paint her pony with the paints.  I let her, because we have so many of those darn things from garage sales.  She knew to mix the red and blue to make purple.  I think she learned that from Barney.  Anyways, I put rocks on the plates to keep them from blowing away.

I wanted her to do something large scale and involving her whole body.  So, I made these large paintbrushes that are more like little brooms.  I had these foam paint brush things (kind of like this, but ours were bought like that.)  I used rubber bands and masking tape to attach them to a long tube.

These were used as long painting tools until a gust of wind came and blew everything across the driveway.  We had to set everything up again in the garage.  If it is at all windy, definitely set it up in a garage!

This was all about the process and just enjoying painting large scale, so I don’t have a picture of the finished painting.  It was nice for her to mix it up a bit and to paint standing up, because she is very used to painting with a traditional paint brush at a table.

The paper is decent fingerpaint paper, although I must admit, I don’t have a lot of experience with fingerpaint paper and fingerpaints.  We usually just use regular paint and paper with brushes.  Daria doesn’t like getting too messy.

After I try out the other papers, I will let you know what I think of them!

Here is Desmond, who sat outside with us and watched everything.

I hope you are having a great summer!