Children use berry baskets to make different designs with paint.
Objectives:
To make different designs and colors using paint and plastic berry baskets.
Materials:
- Plastic berry baskets
- Paint
- Paper
- Paint smocks
- Meat trays
Lesson Plan:
- Have the children put their paint smocks on.
- Put out several different berry baskets along with several different colors of paint.
- Pour paint into the plastic meat trays.
- Place the baskets into the paint.
- The children can pick the colors they want to use for their creation of art.
- Tell the children to use the berry baskets to create prints on their paper. They can make single prints or overlap prints if they’d like.
Comments:
When the paintings are dry, they make really neat designs!
By: Debbie Haren, Preschool Teacher
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