Painting With Marbles In A Box
Every time i introduce marble painting to a group of preschoolers i change the process a bit.
Painting with marbles in a box. Use these simple ideas to extend your art activity to include science. Painting with marbles and balls is the perfect combination of creativity experimentation and exploration for kids. Roll em around mix up a few colors and create a famous artist jackson pollock inspired masterpiece. We used a large box lid and simply placed a piece of heavy paper inside.
Marble painting for kids is an easy and fun action art activity that results in a wonderfully abstract work of art. Students placed marbles in the box and began tipping the box back and forth allowing the marbles to roll through the paint and then across the pumpkins. Can you paint with marbles. Get ready for art that s a bit active a bit silly and a little messy.
Fun variations included in this article. I love it even more when art activities for preschoolers can be combined with science. Remove that color and continue with the other colors. You can do an abstract collage or a picture composition like we did in this snowy day collage we marble painted various colored sheets of paper with white paint and then cut the painted sheets into shapes to make a winter themed collage.
Students could decide if they wanted a nice orange and white pattern on their pumpkin or to keep rolling until it was solid orange. We did this with candy cane coloring page. All you need are a few marbles paint and a box top or tray. We didn t need to tape it down but depending on the weight of your paper you may prefer to use some tape to hold it in place.
Awesome process art activities make for a perfect hands on art experience for kiddos of all ages. Place marbles from one color into the container and roll around by moving the box from side to side etc. I love making art. Place the paint into small cups and drop a few marbles in each color.
Shallow box box lid or similar. As you might have guessed we have been exploring marbles and you just can t explore marbles without including a little marble painting in your planning. Painting with balls is a fun way to combine process art and science. Marble painting is always a favorite kids art activity.
We ve done it on our own as well as for playdates and the larger toddler art group. Painting with marbles is a fun and engaging process.