Looking for quick and easy art projects for your preschool classroom? Here are a few of my go-to’s.
Paint and stamping! Use anything! Cookie cutters, unifix cubes, bottle tops, corks, sponges, apples, handprints, and fingerprints!
Take a peek in your kitchen, grab the salad mixer, a muffin tin, or the rolling pin!
Have the kids drop (thinned paint) using eye droppers or pipettes onto a piece of paper placed inside your salad spinner and spin away. Have plenty of paper on hand and test the paint consistency before setting out the project.
Cut small squares of paper. Have the kids paint the bottom of a muffin tin and make prints.
Have the kids drop paint onto their paper and roll. If you have a large group of kids it can be time-consuming to keep cleaning the rolling pin. Try sandwiching the paint between two pieces of paper.
Add painters tape to watercolor paper.
Any kind of foldover art projects are like magic in a preschoolers’ eyes, they are always so amazed at their results. Cut out butterflies, hearts, or just use a folded piece of paper. This is a great activity when studying color mixing!
Over the years I have collected a few basic boxes for marble painting. Keep the paper precut inside the boxes and they are ready to go when you need that quick art project. Just add paint and marbles or balls. Click here for more marble painting examples!
By far the easiest set up is simply let them explore fingerprinting. Easy peasy set up, just place the paper on the table and give the kiddos a couple of drops of paint and let them mix the colors with their hands.
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