DIY: Rainbow Fan

One of my High School students suggested this cool project. Just happened to have a fan with three blades in my Art room so we went for it one afternoon. The primary colors kind of mix together while it is spinning + it brightens up the Art Room.

For this project you'll need:
-A fan with three blades and able to access the blades to paint
-Primary colors of paint
-brushes (we used foam brushes)

First, you open up  your fan so you can access the blades and prepare your paint.  It was easy getting inside the fan, but  a little trickier to get the fan back together. We painted the blades the primary colors.

Then we put the fan back together.

Lastly, we gave it a whirl.  At faster speeds it looked a little brown which makes sense because the primary colors mixed create brown. It looked much prettier at the lower speeds.

This project truly BRIGHTENED my day and so HAPPY it was suggested to me. Hope you give it a try....I think all ages would enjoy this! If I did it again I think I would try just 2 colors so that it would ultimately be a more beautiful color than brown.

Paint Mixing In Bags

I know this is nothing original, but it was a huge hit with my daughter and the neighborhood kids.  All we did was mix paint colors in plastic baggies. The great thing is.....there is no mess!  I hung some of the paint mixing bags on the window like sun catchers. I love how they look!

To create Paint Bags you'll need:

Baggies with the zipper top

Paint like tempera or acrylic

Place the paint in the bag.

Squish the paint together.

 A great way to experiment with mixing colors without the mess...

We did a lot!

You can draw over the paint.

Make no-mess handprints.

Pretty cool?

No mess printing with objects...

Results....

My favorite is when I hung them on the window..... Paint Bag Sun Catchers!!!!!

Again, something so simple always has so many possibilities.....try mixing other things in bags...let me know the results!

If you don't have paint you could use shaving cream and food colors.


What projects have you done with Plastic Bags?

Spin Art Without The Spinner

This idea was taken from Teach Preschool's post: Paper Plate Spin Art Without The Spinner For Preschoolers. I was very inspired by this post and knew that Cassie and I would try it soon! We love Spin Art and I thought it would be great to try it without the spinner! This project became all about Mixing Colors in the end! To begin we squirted a bunch of tempera paint on a paper plate. (I would use much less paint than what is pictured here!)

Then after you've put some paint on the paper plate, flip it over carefully on a sheet of paper. (I helped with this) Then twist the paper plate with your hand a few times.

Lift the paper plate up and you will have made your spin art without a spinner! We had so much paint on the plate we printed it again! So we had spin art on the paper plate, and two other paintings!

Here is one print.

After using multiple colors, we experimented with mixing primary colors. First we mixed yellow + red...

...to create spin art with different oranges like: yellow orange and red orange!

Then we mixed yellow + blue...

...to create yellow green and blue green!

Last, we mixed blue + red...

...to create red violet and blue violet!

So you can use both the painted paper plate and the paper print as art, and print more if you have used more paint! So we have a bunch of Spin Art Without The Spinner now!!!

Any ideas of what we could create these into?

Also, these could be purely experimental art too!!!

What do you think???

This post is linked to:

SHOW AND TELL
CHILD CENTERED ART PARTY
IT'S PLAYTIME
KIDS GET CRAFTY
RESOURCE CENTRE
PRESCHOOL CORNER
SUNDAY SHOWCASE