Preschooler Painting Activity - Musical Painting Time
Get ready for a creative musical adventure! Music can make us move, dance, jump and groove. Join us on a creative music journey filled drawing adventure. Let the music guide your paintbrush as you paint.
Time: 20 minutes
Recommended Art Materials:
Jumbo Washable Squeeze Paintbrushes
Easy Peel Stickable Coloring Roll
Waterproof Art smock
Music
Step 1:
Choose music to listen to while you paint. It can be anything: orchestra-filled classical music, brilliant brass jazz or a bright pop music. It’s as simple as putting on the radio or picking a playlist of favourite songs and painting to the music.
Step 2:
Put on your Waterproof Art Smock. Place a large sheet of your Easy Peel Stickable Colouring Roll onto a big vertical surface.
Step 3:
While the music is playing, place your Jumbo Washable Paint Brush on the page and paint the sound that you hear. Make lines, squiggles or dots.
Step 4:
Try it again, this time experiment with different music to explore different emotions.
Tip 1:
After the music stops, look at the painting. Ask your children, “How does your painting make you feel? Are you excited or calm?”
Tip 2:
Creating on a vertical surface like this is very beneficial for core strength, crossing the midline, bilateral coordination and spatial awareness. These skills are all beneficial when it comes time to learn how to write.
Big Thinkers:
Music makes our minds develop and can make new pathways! Music sparks our brain, helping us to become more creative.
Skill Development:
Sensory Development: Responding to music activates neurological pathways.
Hand-Eye Coordination & Bilateral Coordination: Drawing on a vertical surface strengthens the core and the body in relation to spatial awareness.
Visual Perception: Children learn to associate patterns and shapes with ideas and emotions.
Pre-writing: Fostering hand-eye coordination, bilateral coordination & visual perception are all important pre-writing skills.