Got any alternative ways?

Question

i need fun ways to color or paint without using crayons or paint, or any other usual way of doing crafts. something like painting with shaving cream, or painting with feathers instead of paint brushes ect. they have to be preschool approiate so make sure that a preschool would be able to do it. be as creative as you can and help me out please!

Answer 1

Instead of brushes try painting with:

Squeeze bottles

Eyedroppers

Fly swatters

Roll-on deodorant bottles

Bingo dabbers/markers

Spray bottles

Marbles

Spoons and forks

String

Cooked spaghetti  noodles

Yarn

Bark

Combs

Brushes

Tooth brushes (flick the bristles)

Bottle caps

Crumpled Saran wrap

Corn cobs

Koosh balls

Balloons

Plastic animals (feet)

Toy cars (roll the wheels through paint)

Bubble wrap

Feathers

Ice

Foods (Potatoes-green peppers, apples--cut open)

Cotton balls

Q-tips

Shoe polish applicators

Pipe cleaners

Candy "Peeps" in springtime

Nature items that have a flat side (twigs, leaves, rocks, etc.).

Child's fingers, hands and feet :-)

Pudding was already mentioned--it's wonderful for painting--also try:

SCRATCH & SNIFF PAINT RECIPE

Mix flavored gelatin or kool aid package into half the water suggested in the package directions. Paint with the scented mixture and allow to dry. You will have a scratch and sniff painting...



RICE FINGER PAINT Recipe (Good for Toddlers to Pre-K)

Mix baby rice cereal with water and food coloring.

EAGLE BRAND MILK PAINT

Add food coloring to Eagle Brand Condensed Milk and create paint. When the "paint" dries on paper, it will be shiny.

For more creative ideas, visit the Forum page of www.After-School-care.com

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Just click on any of the threads that interest you!

Check out the paints, art, and play-dough threads...there are hundreds of great ideas!

Answer 2

Pudding is great for preschoolers to use for finger painting.  They will get their fingers into their mouths and you don't have to worry because they're only eating pudding!  Chocolate, vanilla, butterscotch for different effects.

Answer 3

You can paint with Q-tips, gadgets (potato mashers or pie dough rollers), feather dusters, scrubbies, sponges, big or little brushes.  We use cars in shaving cream, fingerpaint with pudding, today we glued egg shapes around a cut our paper plate to make an Easter egg wreath.  Google "preschool crafts" and you will get a million ideas.

Answer 4

I have 5 years old Little artist who just did some awesome painting with flower petals. ( he rubbed different colors flower petals on paper). have a fun!

Answer 5

Put big beads (with different textures and shapes (hearts, stars...) On skewer sticks. Dip the bead in paint. have the kids hold the stick and roll the bead all over the paper.

Answer 6

I LOVE using other items rather than paintbrushes!  Items I have used:

- Feathers

- Leaves or palm branches

- sponges (ones with soft and abrasive sides)

- toothbrushes

Some other good ideas for art for preschoolers:

-Straw Art: My kids love this project!  Each child gets a piece of manila paper and  a straw.  The teacher helps each child (either dip the end of the straw into paint or use a sqeezy bottle to put a tiny bit of paint inside the straw- I have done it both ways).  Then allow the child to blow into the straw above the paper!  It creates great patterns and splatters!!!

-Bubble Art: I recently did this to go along with a theme of "the wind" that we were learning about. What we did was mix some food coloring into bubble solution!.  Each color had a different small bubble bottle.  We then allowed the children to take turns with the colors, blowing colored bubbles onto their own manila paper!  When they hit the paper, they POP and create fun patterns on the paper!  They LOVED it!!

-Bingo Art: I use Bingo daubers all the time with art projects...They keep the paint from getting to messy and the kids love them.

-Art Rubbings- Leaves- I did this project last year with a "fall leaves" theme.  Each child gathered their own leaves on our "nature walk", then used the leaves to create rubbings of them.  By overlapping them, using different types of leaves and colors- the rubbings looked awesome and the kids love what they created!

-Wheel Tracks: At the center where I am an intern, the toddlers/ preschoolers did a theme on "transportation".  As an art project, they gave the kids different vehicles with different sizes and types of wheels (a fire truck, a jeep, cars, an ambulance, etc.), paper and paint.  The kids then were able to "drive" their cars across the paper and see what type of wheel tracks they made!!! It was so fun and different and they got a real kick out of it!

-Smoosh Art: One of the things that I love to is give each child paper, paint and eyedroppers.  Each child gets the chance to drop the paint on their paper and then fold the paper in half.  When it is opened again, the paint has formed cool patterns and merged colors!  It is so fun!  (As a follow-up activity I love to have the kids look at their own paper and draw a picture of what they think the pattern looks like!)

-Flake Art: Crayon Flakes or Candle Wax Flakes.  One summer I did this project when we were learning about the sun and heat.  The children are given the flakes as written above to sprinkle onto their paper in whatever color, scents or patterns they choose to.  Then, the papers are set near a warm window and each covered with a piece of wax paper.  After a while, the flakes will start to melt and merge colors, etc.  The kids LOVED watching the transformation of their projects!

-Shaving Cream: I have also done the shaving cream with food coloring project before with the younger ones.  It's fun and the shaving cream dries over time.

- Tissue Paper Creations:Another one that I have done with toddlers is giving them different colors of tissue paper and allowing them to tear it and stick it to their paper to create collages.  Another version of this that I have done is to have them wad up the tissue paper and use it as a "stamp" to paint with- we got some really interesting patterns out of that!

Anyway, hope that some of those help you out!