Today we did another process art activity! The boys, like many other their age I'm sure, have a large bucket of toy cars that they absolutely love playing with. I know that I can always get their attention when I use their favourite things in our activities. This was certainly one of those times!! I even sneakily added in some learning, by purposefully using only the primary colours so that the boys would mix them together and we could talk about colour mixing.
Supplies: roll of butcher paper, paint, tape, toy cars (that you don't mind getting covered in paint!)
I started by laying out my trusty plastic table cloth on our table. Then we rolled out a large piece of butcher paper and taped it down. Next we added drops of paint and laid cars out, ready to go. You can see I made a different area for mixing each secondary colour.
Well Monkey and Peanut couldn't wait to get started. By the time I was ready to take some pictures they were hard at work driving the cars through the paint. They definitely thought using their beloved cars was awesome!
I always find that the easiest colours to mix are blue and yellow. Green always comes so obviously. Purple and orange take a little more work and are a little harder to see in these pictures.
The boys sat here driving their cars around on the paper until the paint was starting to dry. They loved this art project. And they really liked it when we headed up to the bath tub and I had them bring the cars to join them for a big scrub!
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