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Salt Painting Easter Egg Art

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Salt painting is such a fabulous process art activity. I love it on these fun patterned Easter eggs. Spring break was the perfect time to use the pastel liquid watercolors and my whole crew of 8 ages 2-8 years enjoyed the same project. Salt Painting Easter Egg Art creates lovely Easter themed art and incorporates some cool science and fine motor skills.

Salt Painting Easter Egg Art

Salt Painting Easter Egg Art

For this activity you will need:

Salt Painting Easter Egg Art

Directions:

  1. Create an egg design with glue.
  2. Sprinkle with salt.
  3. Allow to dry.
  4. Using pipettes, drip liquid watercolors on the salt. Watch the salt absorb the paint.

Salt Painting Easter Egg Art

Each child could design their own egg but some of my group is quite young. Also, prepping the activity saved us time.

Salt Painting Easter Egg Art

Everyone’s design turned out awesome!

Salt Painting Easter Egg Art

The colors dried lighter since we diluted the paints but they are beautiful.

Salt Painting Easter Egg Art

If you haven’t tried salt painting yet, you must! Kids love it.

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Salt Painting Easter Egg Art

Salt Painting Easter Egg Art

Salt Painting Easter Egg Art

Salt Painting Easter Egg Art

St. Patrick’s Day Pom Pom Painting

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Use a pom pom clipped to a clothespin to paint some fun St. Patrick’s Day Pom Pom Painting pages.  I’ve found that some children will rub the paint and some will make spots. Either method will work great! The coloring pages shown are available for download at the bottom of the post.

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St. Patrick’s Day Pom Pom Painting

Supplies Needed:

Directions:

  1. Clip a clothespin to a pom pom to create a fun painting tool.
  2. Add a little paint to a foam plate.
  3. Paint as desired.

Children love these types of painting activities and it’s a great process art experience.

Consider adding a little glitter paint to these. Glitter paint makes every holiday festive!

Pom Pom Painting Printable Patterns

Download the patterns below (PDF)

Shamrock Pattern   Coin Pattern  Horseshoe Pattern

More St. Patrick’s Day Ideas

Snowstorm Art Invitation to Create

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It’s Winter in the Woods! It’s not winter without snow and we have lots of it and more on the way! Snowstorms are exciting (for kids anyway). We enjoyed Mother Goose Time’s Snowstorm Art Invitation to Create. See our other Winter in the Woods activities at the end of this post.

Snowstorm Art Invitation to Create #MGTblogger

Day 10 of our Winter in the Woods theme is Snowman.  What can you build with snow? A snowman! A fort! Snowballs!

Snowman #MGTblogger Snowstorm Art

This is a picture from last weekend – our first big snow storm of December – about 7″ of snow. This weekend we’re expecting that much or more again! Snowstorms are exciting. There’s much fun snow to play this year but it’s been very cold.

Snowstorm Art Invitation to Create

Snowstorm Art Invitation to Create

Look at this beautiful snowstorm photo we used for to inspire our snowstorm art. The materials included:

  • white paper
  • black paper
  • blue paper
  • bubble wrap pockets for painting

Snowstorm Art Invitation to Create

First, we cut the white and black paper into triangles, like the pine tree shape, and glued them on the blue paper. We used white and silver paint to make snow prints over the trees with bubble wrap pocket. It works very well for little ones who don’t want to get paint on their hands.

Snowstorm Art Invitation to Create

One chose to use her hands.

Snowstorm Art Invitation to Create

The results of our Snowstorm Art Invitation to Create are modern winter scenes! Love this shape/winter/process art project. See more Winter in the Woods ideas below.

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More Winter Activities

Snowy Mitten Art

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It’s time to celebrate winter! We’ve had our first snowfall and we’re playing outside in the snow every day. I can’t help but sing this little song when I help my kiddos put on their mittens. So it was time to make snowy mitten art!

“Thumb in the thumb place, fingers all together. This is the song we sing during mitten weather.” There are many fingerplays and versions of this song, but I sing that phrase to the “Itsy Bitsy Spider” tune.

Snowy Mitten Art - The Mitten Song

Snowy Mitten Art

Needed:

Directions:

  1. Cut out mitten shape.
  2. Glue to construction paper or cardstock.
  3. Stamp with snowflake stamps and paint.
  4. Glue on song words.
Snowy Mitten Art - The Mitten Song

I used red paper and blue mitten shapes this time, but you can also use white cardstock and colored mittens. Have each child choose their own color of mittens. They could color or decorate the mittens before painting if desired. After painting the child could add cotton balls to the edges of the mittens for cuffs. That would be so cute!

Snowy Mitten Art - The Mitten Song

I always like to add glitter paint to the paint when we do this project for a little sparkle. Snow is magical!winter preschool art Snowy Mitten Art - The Mitten Song

Singing the mitten song when putting on mittens is a fun way to make it through the routine that can be frustrating for young children ( as well as adults!) It’s a good practice to make everyday routines fun and educational. It offers a little one on one time with each child that is so hard to find sometimes.Snowy Mitten Art - The Mitten Song

Three’s the literacy component too – there’s value in adding in language whenever we can with little ones! The mitten song incorporates parts of the and – thumb and fingers.Snowy Mitten Art - The Mitten Song

I typed up and printed the words to Snowy Mitten Art because I believe language and literacy with art is a great combination. When the children take this art home, they can teach the little song to their parents too!

FREE PRINTABLE SONG WORDS

Mitten Song words

If you’re looking for more information on the Mitten Song fingerplay, here are a couple resources:

Mess Free Painting with Kwik Stix

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We are excited to get to try out the new Kwik Stix! I’ve been wanting to try them and was able to get some free samples to try out with my child care kids. I was really hoping they would be as great as they seem. Guess what? They are!

This post is sponsored by The Pencil Grip, Inc, Creators of Kwik Stix. All opinions are my own.

Mess Free Painting Kiwk Stix

Don’t get me wrong, we love messy! We do lots of messy art like syringe painting or Starry Night Sensory Play but sometimes, less mess is very welcomed!

Since we are working recognizing our names and letters in our names, I printed out each child’s name in a large fillable font (kbsticktoit font)

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Mess Free Painting with Kwik Stix

Kwik Stix are solid tempera paint sticks. They certainly are easy to use! They’re a lot like a glue stick. The paint glides on very smoothly on paper and dries quickly, in 90 seconds!

Mess Free Painting Kiwk Stix

Kwik Stix can be used on paper, wood, canvas, cardboard and many other types of crafts.

Mess Free Painting Kiwk Stix

My kids, ages 2-5, really like them! They are getting good use. They have been awesome about putting the caps back on so they don’t dry out or get ruined. I have them trained well.

Mess Free Painting Kiwk Stix

I haven’t had any problems with them twisting the stix way up or breaking them off. I explained that we don’t want to do that or they will be ruined.

Mess Free Painting Kiwk Stix

The “shiny” ones, or the Metalix, are their favorites. Mess Free Painting Kiwk Stix

We always have our art cart out with blank paper for free time so the Quik Stix are getting lots of use during that time and they are creating wonderful designs!Mess Free Painting Kiwk Stix

Below are a few examples of the art and name coloring we’ve done with our new Quik Stix. The colors are very vibrant.

Mess Free Painting Kiwk StixMess Free Painting Kiwk Stix

No stains on hands. Washes easily off the table. Dries smooth and bright. Awesome art material!
Mess Free Painting Kiwk Stix

Kwik Sticks are new at Target. Now you can find Kwik Stix 6 packs of Basic and Metalix colors. If you want Kwik Stix 96 pack, 24 pack, 12 pack and 6 packs of Classics, neons, and Metalix are available at Target.com.

Kwik Stix would make great Christmas gifts too. Kids will love using them and parents will love that they are mess free!

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