See and Learn:

• How to supervise painting at an easel.
• The advantages of different brushes: brush points, thickness, and length.
• How to introduce different paints in the classroom, including liquid and powdered tempera paint pancakes, and watercolor pallets.
• How children can initiate their own activities and select their own materials, from brushes, to paper, to colors.
• How to help children learn about mixing colors. “Where did the pink come from? What color do you mix with white to make pink?”
• How to keep classroom and kids clean, from wearing smocks to mixing liquid detergent into paints.
• A variety of painting activities including painting with blocks, painting on the floor, painting through a screen, painting with a rolling pin.
• How to select colors so children doing their own mixing.
• How to purchase paper and provide kids with various shapes; working with newsprint, butcher paper, and paper from local recycling stores.

29 minutes.
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Teaching Guide

The Visual Arts Workbook (PDF Format)