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ON-GOING
EASEL ART PROJECT:
Salt Painting
on Rectangles
From
Stormie:
For "salt painting,"
I simply add salt to the blue and white paints at the easel. It gives children's
paintings a "sparkling icy" appearance which seems perfect for January weather,
and the children can experience the texture of salt added to the paints and to
their pictures. I have, at times, added the slightest amount of glue to
the paints along with the salt but you really don't need to.
By the way, pickling salt used for canning has a sparkly appearance.
Blue and white rectangles for use at the easel can be in all sizes. Children can experiment with how white paint looks on white paper, or how blue paint looks on blue paper. You can ask questions like, "Do you like blue paint on white paper better?" "White paint on blue paper?" And so on.
Allow children to experience various textures of paper too (manilla, newsprint, typing, cardboard, tissue, etc).
Or, provide various colors of rectangles (instead of just blue and white) for children to consider which colors they feel look best with white or blue paint on them. Print their words on paper and post these results along with their "crystal" looking paintings on your parent bulletin board.
Let children compare salts in their paintings (Kosher, regular table salt, sea salt, pickling salt). What neat science!
Children can also mix the blue and white paints to create shades of blue.
As a follow-up, let children take paints outside and paint on real ice! Or, make slush from real ice and let children paint with it and compare it to salt paintings.
Creative
Abstract Paintings
Going
From Abstract to Concrete: Provide large sheets of paper at the easel for
children to paint. Once the paintings are dry, children can take them
home as they are or they can have you cut them into a January themed shape (mitten,
snowflake, etc) and/or then take them to the Art Center to do with as they wish.
Do you have special January on-going projects to share?
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