Experimenting With Paint

Experimenting with paint medium is always happening in the wonderful world of kindergarten. Sometimes the girls and boys come up with some very cool ideas. Other times the teachers come up with some very cool ideas!

Dropping the string into the vibrant paint colours provided an interesting start to this painting activity. The children began to experiment with the different colours and the movement of the string. 

The children continued to paint with string and experiment with shapes, 

color mixing, line and design.

This egg-citing paint activity had the children cracking eggs and mixing in food colouring. 

The paint acted differently than water colour or acrylic paint. We used a different 
type of paper.

The paint looked shiny.  The colours bled together and mixed in a different way. Some of the children enjoyed simply letting the paint drip from the brushes and watching the colours mix into the pools they were creating. 

Filling sheets of paper with colours and using textured tools to move the paint around was the first step in another painting activity. Once the paintings dried, strips and pieces were torn away and pasted on another paper to create a picture.

Experimenting with painting techniques and different mediums gives the children a chance to develop things like 'cause and effect' and 'critical thinking' skills. 

When you consider your child's painting in an honoured place on the refrigerator, there's more to what you see than meets the eye!