Marble Painting Easter Eggs

I love painting with lots of different and unexpected things! Paint brushes are so passe ;)
We have painted with marbles before in our class and I thought it made a pretty pattern and would be a great idea to do during Spring/Easter to decorate Easter eggs!

Targets
Vocabulary-egg
Colors
Requesting (I want a marble; I want yellow, etc)

First came the reminder that we only *roll* the marble in the box...we do not shake the box! (we are not marble painting the floor!!).
We gathered our materials

--cut out paper eggs, tempera paint, cups to hold the paint, spoons to scoop the marbles, a box (we drink *lots* of water at my house...we simply used box from the packaging of water bottles case)

Next, the students requested their egg (I want an egg) and put it into the box

Then, they chose their color (I want red, etc), scooped the marble out of the cup with the spoon and put it into the box

Then, the fun began! The kids rolled the marbles, making beautiful designs! The switched paint to add more colors.

 After they were done, we even snuck in a little practice with grammar! We talked about what they did so we could try to elicit the word "painted."
And I really do think they painted beautifully!

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Valentine's Day Marble Painting!

Painting with marbles or golf balls is always a fun and different way to get kids to participate in art activities! Usually, I put the marbles or golf balls in an old cardboard box top, but, for Valentine's Day, we used heart shaped boxes from candy! (Please don't ask who ate all the chocolate... ;) )

We gathered our materials--some marbles, cups with red paint, spoons to take out the marbles, heart shaped boxes from Valentine's Day candy and cut out paper hearts.  

Two things of note-- 1) to make the right-sized paper hearts, we traced the paper insert they use inside the candy box to protect the (precious) chocolate, just making it slightly smaller;

2) I needed to go out to a teacher supply store because I literally did lose my marbles...
Then we got started

Targets
Vocabulary- hearts, red
Requesting- "I want a heart," "I want paint"
Articulation- /s/ blends in SPoon

First, the students requested their heart and box by using their words. The paper hearts fit perfectly!

Next, the students used the SPoon to take out the marble and put it into their heart box.

We really focused on having the kids use their /s/ sound, so they said "spoon," not "poon!"


Then, the fun began! They moved the box around so the paint-covered marble moved around, making really cool designs!

(We did have to give a couple of reminders to use "quiet hands" so they didn't paint the table or floor...).
Some of the things I heard were "middle" and "around," which are great concepts!


When they were done, we took them out of the boxes to dry.

 

 I think they came out pretty cute!

Happy Painting!!