Impasto painting allows 3-year-olds to explore a thick-textured material while creating expressive artwork and discovering the world around them. Provide children with toilet paper. Kids tear the paper into pieces. An adult mixes glue and the paper in a bowl until it becomes a gooey mixture. Children dip their fingers into the bowl and finger paint the mixture on heavy black paper. Let dry for two days. When the picture is dry the children use different colors of paints and brushes to paint the picture. This makes a beautiful 3-D painting that may be framed.
Three-years-olds create beautiful cornmeal paintings while practicing hand-eye coordination and discovering different-textured materials. An adult mixes a variety of colors of tempera paint with cornmeal and places the mixture in shakers. The children take a craft stick and dip it into a bowl of glue, then drop the glue onto a piece of heavy poster board paper, creating lines, circles and different designs. The child shakes color on the glue with the shakers. When finished, spray with hairspray to preserve the painting.
Children enjoy being outside while creating beautiful artwork that teaches 3-year-olds about color mixing. A grownup mixes water with acrylic paint until it is a thin consistency and places a variety of colors in different spray bottles. Tape a long piece of butcher paper to an outdoor fence or wall with masking tape. Children use their spray bottles filled with paint to create expressive art.
Encourage little ones to overlap colors so that blending and mixing can occur.
Small children create beautiful artwork while using different sizes and shapes. Three-year-olds love discovering the final product of crepe paper art. A grownup cuts several different shapes and sizes of crepe paper in a variety of colors. Children lay the crepe paper on heavy white poster board and paint vinegar over the paper with a paintbrush. Set aside to dry. When the picture is dry, brush the paper away and a beautiful design will be underneath.