{"id":1068,"date":"2008-02-15T09:08:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2009-10-31T09:39:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T16:39:57","slug":"guessing-game-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Guessing Game Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you always have to use a brush to make great paintings?<\/span><\/h1>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0construction paper
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0tempera paints
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0clean plastic-foam vegetable or fruit trays
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0child’s paintbrush
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0assorted items: pine needles, feathers, twists of paper towels, yarn, plastic flowers, pipe cleaners, and so on <\/span><\/p>\n

Have your child put on a smock. Cover the table with newspaper. Pour some tempera paint on the plastic-foam trays. Set out construction paper and a brush.\u00c2\u00a0Encourage your preschooler to use the paintbrush to paint on the paper. Talk about the brush strokes. Are they wide? thin? drippy? big lines? huge circles?\u00c2\u00a0Offer items chosen from the assortment listed above. Ask your child to demonstrate how he thinks he could use these items to paint instead of using a brush. Do they paint as well as the brush?\u00c2\u00a0Brainstorm other items from indoors or outdoors to use for brushless paintings. Test them out. Discuss how they work. Which ones were most fun to use? Why?\u00c2\u00a0When the paintings have dried, play a guessing game. See if you can match the paint marks to the tools with which they were painted.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0creative thinking
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0matching skills
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0fine-motor skills
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0learning about how tools function<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you always have to use a brush to make great paintings? \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0construction paper \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0tempera paints \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0clean plastic-foam vegetable or fruit trays \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0child’s paintbrush \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0assorted items: pine needles, feathers, twists of paper towels, yarn, plastic flowers, pipe cleaners, and so on Have your child put on a smock. Cover the table with newspaper. Pour some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,37,38,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}