Easel activities

Painting on foil is an easy process art activity kids will love! Foil painting is a shiny, shimmery, awesome alternative to painting on paper!

Fun and creative easel activity that promotes fine motor and literacy development.

Making the rounds in social networking has been this wonderful post titled, "This is What Happens when you Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids." from Colossal. This post shares the wonderful artwork called, "The Obliteration Room." If you haven't taken a look at their sticker dot covered white room

This collection of preschool easel painting activities includes lots of simple and fun painting ideas for the classroom!

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Painting on Bubble Wrap with Brayers: This is a wonderful pre-writing exercise because it extends the wrist. In this activity, the preschoolers rolled paint on the bubble wrap and then pressed paper against it to make a print. ≈≈

All year we’ve been having fun with colors, but these past few weeks we had a fun pom pom center! This included a pompom drop and a place to sort the pompoms by color. I came across some great ideas for pompom drops on Pinterest, but this was just a quick throw-together. I would love to attach these to wood instead of just paper! Anyway, I began with cardboard tubes (I’m such a hoarder) and painted them 6 different colors using 2-3 coats of regular tempera paint. Then I attached them with…

I recently read about this over at the Teach Preschool blog and I loved the idea of building on the easel. This week I covered our easel with contact paper and secured it with duct tape. I then put cups of pattern blocks on one side and cups of colored yarn on the other. The children have been exploring creating art on the sticky surfaces. They have made designs, pictures, patterns and it is only Tuesday! They are really enjoying this experience. Surprisingly only one child asked if he could…

We keep a whole set of pipettes in our outdoor classroom for all sorts of exploration and so today, we set the pipettes out at the easel for the children to practice using the pipettes through a little drip drop painting...