This is a fast and fun activity that can be done with almost any age.
- Gather your materials. You will need one ziplock per child and a few colors of paint.
- Pour the paint into your bag , flatten as much air out as you can, and then seal it.
- If you want to make the lesson about color mixing you can wait and add in another color after playing with the first color for a while, asking your child if they know what color it will turn into.
- You can make letters, numbers and pictures too. Remember to ask your child how it feels, is it cold, soft? squishy?
- For added fun you can put different colored paper under your ziplock and the designs will be more colorful!
* You may be wondering why my little model isn’t doing this activity. I did let him play with it but all he wanted to do was chew the bag- trust me though the preschool classes I have done this with love it! You may just want to avoid doing it with toddlers who are cutting teeth! *
” A Rainbow Of My Own” by Don Freeman is a charming story about wanting a rainbow, you may notice that the colors are out of order but I have always used that as a teaching tool in my classes.
” Little Blue and Little Yellow” by Leo Lioni is a profound book with underlying commentary about race relations while the surface story is about little blobs of color who when squished together turn into one green blob!