Materials
Tempera paints
Paint containers
Water
Fingerpaint paper
Pipettes and eyedroppers
Instructions
What to do
1. Pour the paint
into containers,
thinning it with a
little water.
2. Give each child a
piece of fingerpaint
paper.
3. Supply pipettes
and eyedroppers
and encourage
the children to
drip paint on
their paper, creating
a design.
More to do
More art: Laminate
the final product
and use as a place
mat. Cut the paper in shapes appropriate to the season such as a star, a leaf, a Christmas tree, or
Easter egg, then paint.
Snack: Bake or buy muffins or angel food cake, then ask the children to use an eyedropper to
squeeze droplets of food coloring from a cup into a bowl of frosting. Frost the baked goods and
enjoy a special snack.
