This project is messy, but fun. Your students will love it and love you for allowing them to be messy. Crazy paint will give students an opportunity to use fine motor skills and allow them to express themselves with paint and texture.
Crazy Paint is for all grades and was inspired by the author Eric Carle.
Grades K-8th grades (K-2 may need teachers help)
2 or 3-day project(45 minutes a day)
Learning Objectives
• Students will learn about warm colors and cool colors.
• Gain the appreciation for Eric Carle as a writer and illustrator.
• Create texture & apply it to paper collage.
• Practice stamp printing.
Materials
• Eric Carle books for reference (see page 7 for a list of books)
• 9” x 12” construction paper
• Pencils, erasers, scissors
• White butcher paper
• Crazy Paint tools – mesh bath puffs, forks, corks, sponges, bottle caps, cardboard, corn cobs, eye droppers, fabric of different textures, jar lids, toothbrushes, kitchen tools, crumpled plastic wrap, sponges of all kinds, straws, spray bottles, rubber bait worms, plastic mesh from cheese and anything you have around the school or house.
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Kimberly D.
March 19, 2017
This was a fairly complex project which we completed in my grades 1-4 classroom over about 3 lessons. The final products were nice. It was so much FUN!!! The older students didn’t do the frog and made their own pictures.