If you are looking for an interesting activity to do at home with your child to enhance their education then try: Flyswatter Painting. Yes, flyswatter painting. The children in Big Bird Buddies thoroughly enjoyed this unique activity composed of a simple household object and some paint.
Brief Description:
Pour different color paints on separate paper plates. This will provide your child with optimal choices. Supply your child with a piece of paper and a flyswatter. The flyswatter becomes the paintbrush and the artwork relies on their imagination.
-Some suggestions you might make to encourage thinking include:
* Ask questions about the colors your child chooses to use.
* Help your child recognize how the colors change as they overlap or mix. Are they making a new color? Are they getting darker? Are they getting lighter? To strengthen the chance of color changes supply only primary colors and either black or white for your child to paint with.
* Encourage your child to find multiple ways to use the flyswatter as a painting device (ex. Swatting paint on the paper, pushing paint around the paper, pressing it to make a definite flyswatter shape: like a stamp).
* Explore whether or not the pattern is effected if the flyswatter is used more quickly. More slowly?
Key Developmental Indicators that correspond with this activity:
Communication and Language: Listening and Responding
Creative Representation: Exploring Building and Art Materials
Social Relations: Playing with Others
Movement: Moving Parts of the Body, Moving with Objects
Time: Experiencing Fast and Slow
Brief Description:
Pour different color paints on separate paper plates. This will provide your child with optimal choices. Supply your child with a piece of paper and a flyswatter. The flyswatter becomes the paintbrush and the artwork relies on their imagination.
-Some suggestions you might make to encourage thinking include:
* Ask questions about the colors your child chooses to use.
* Help your child recognize how the colors change as they overlap or mix. Are they making a new color? Are they getting darker? Are they getting lighter? To strengthen the chance of color changes supply only primary colors and either black or white for your child to paint with.
* Encourage your child to find multiple ways to use the flyswatter as a painting device (ex. Swatting paint on the paper, pushing paint around the paper, pressing it to make a definite flyswatter shape: like a stamp).
* Explore whether or not the pattern is effected if the flyswatter is used more quickly. More slowly?
Key Developmental Indicators that correspond with this activity:
Communication and Language: Listening and Responding
Creative Representation: Exploring Building and Art Materials
Social Relations: Playing with Others
Movement: Moving Parts of the Body, Moving with Objects
Time: Experiencing Fast and Slow
Enjoy,
Ms. Jolene
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Chinese proverb
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