Preschool Art Class: Week 1

Do you remember the online preschool art class I talked about a few weeks ago? Annie and I started it this week and are having a great time doing it together. Since we've been so sick at our house for the last two weeks, we are a bit behind (we've only done two of the four lessons for the week). Nonetheless, we have had a fun time exploring the concept of COLOR. The jars in the picture above are baby food jars that we put water into and then added food coloring to. It was fun talking about the primary colors and the secondary colors this way. Annie got a kick out of seeing what colors were made when we mixed the primary colors together.

Here we are working on a "smush" painting. It was also a great way to learn about symmetry.
Next we worked on these string art paintings by soaking white yarn in liquid watercolor and laying it on one side of a piece of paper. We then took a book and layed it on top of the folded over sheet and pulled the yarn out. Voila! Cool abstract art!Today we worked more on the "color wheel" and talked alot about the colors and how they are made. I used oil pastels for the color wheel worksheet so she could actually "mix" the colors right on the sheet. She did a little abstract coloring also:)Lastly, we did this cool "drip painting" with acrylic paints, canvas board and a waterbottle. It's a bit crazy but it's more the process that I'm interested in, not the end product. As you can see, she's pretty proud of herself:)

Come join in the fun if you have a chance. I'm excited for the other projects!