School Paints: Free Painting Activities for teachers in the classroom

Painting with PVA Glue and School Paints: There are a lot of ways you can use glue to create fun colourful effects with paint. One of my favourites is to create glue resist paintings. Another great and fun idea is to get the children to paint a secret message on the paper, once dried mix up all the classes’ paintings so each child ends up with a secret mystery painting to discover with the painted sponge. Loads of fun! Painting with PVA Glue LEVEL: Pre-school and Primary. You will need: A bright coloured tempera poster paint  PVA Glue – in squeeze bottles is helpful Paper – Bright coloured paper is a great idea. Pencil Sponge or an old dish cloth. Simple designs seem to work best Let’s get started: Draw a design onto your paper lightly with a pencil and then go over it with PVA glue.  Or simply draw a design directly onto paper with using the glue. Using a small squeeze bottle is ideal for small hands but you could use a thin brush to paint your d...

Blown Dye Art Lesson: LEVEL: Pre-school and Primary. Working with dye is colourful and fun.  This is so easy too. This lesson is about blowing dye with a drinking straw . Blown Dye Art School Lesson You will need: : Paper : Food Dye or school art dye – primary colours are best – red, yellow and blue. : Straws : Apron and a cover sheet or newspapers – plus paper towels. Let’s get started: Set up a table for each group of children.   Each table should have two colours of dye only to start with as artworks can get messy quickly. Using just the straw in a controlled way pick up and lift a colour of the dye and let it drop on the the paper. Making a nice little puddle. Try not to put too much on the paper. Leave plenty of white space. When you have enough colour blow the dye all over the paper with the straw. If you are using more than one colour allow the colours to mix into one another. Later you can try using all three pri...

Paper Dyeing school paints: LEVEL: Pre-school and Primary. Quick and easy simple colourful art works.       Paper Dyeing school paints You will need: : Paper – You will get the best results from absorbent papers like: blotting paper, rice paper, coffee filter paper, paper towels : Water Soluble dye or water based food dye. : Eye droppers, old bowls or plastic containers.   : Rubber gloves would also be handy. : Apron and a cover sheet or newspapers or paper towels . Let’s get started: Put on the apron Pour some dye into the containers making sure you have one for each colour. Fold your sheets of paper into eights or even sixteenths. Dip a corner of the folded paper into a colour then remove it while trying not to over soak the paper. Dip another corner into the second colour and remove it. Repeat this with the corners of the paper. Allow to dry. TIPS:    -       ...

LEVEL: Primary School. Paper batik design Batik is a centuries-old art form that involves painting melted wax on fabric and then dipping the fabric in dye.   But here is a simple project for children to make a colourful batik effect with paper wax crayons. You will need: : Water based school dye, a food dye or vegetable dye. : Wax crayons in bold colours. : Sheets of paper. : Apron and sheets of newspapers – plus paper towels – for clean-up. Let’s get started: Prepare a flat surface work area with a newspaper and put on the aprons.   Use the wax crayons to make a picture, a motif, or a design. Work heavily laying down plenty of colourful wax crayon. Then crumple the picture, flatten it and crumple it again. This can be done several times to obtain a crumpled batik effect. Smooth out the picture and make it flat. Now paint lightly with one colour of dye into the cracks of the crayon. Turn the picture over on to the newsprint paper and ...