Marble Painting Earth

These marble painted earths in space were a huge hit with my kindergarteners.

Marble painting earth. If you were like me and had no kid paint on hand at home mine is all still at school here is the recipe for paint that we made yesterday. Pair this with our spring centers and activities for prek and kindergarten. Rockin and rollin repeat steps 1 4 with a few more colors of paint to create your masterpiece. Take it off and then use a straight edge wide popsicle stick to wipe off the shaving cream.

Do this by pouring a small amount of white paint onto a paper plate or small paper bowl. Now pretend you re looking at earth from outer space. I started out with 3 each but we decided to add more later. After all who doesn t love marble painting.

You should be going for a milky look to your paint. Experiment with several marbles at once and see how they interact to create unique patterns. How to water marble with acrylic paint. Drop the paint colored marble into the box on top of the paper and roll it around to create lines and swirls.

Use a stick or toothpick to swirl through the shaving cream and color drops to spread the color out in streaks across the shaving cream. Painting with marbles is a fun and engaging process. You can also use a spray bottle to apply the dye 4. Earth day art activity.

While your marbled earth dries get your outer space background ready. Dip your toothbrush into the white paint and then use your finger to carefully flick speckles of white paint onto your black cardstock paper. This was the first time the apollo trajectory. To begin you ll need white blue and green paint.

Each kid got a big white circle on a tray you could also use a large shoebox. It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica. Every time i introduce marble painting to a group of preschoolers i change the process a bit. Today we did a super fun and easy craft using paint and marbles.

To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. For today s activity we re going to need paint blue and green paint. We put some dabs of blue and green finger paint on the circle and put a few marbles on each tray. If you do and are looking for a fun easy free earth day project you are in the right place.

Press down so the whole plate is covered in paint. Put drops of blue and green paint all over and swirl with the straw. Take a white paper plate and press the bottom into the shaving cream. If you re really adventurous try bouncing.

The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface. If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. As you might have guessed we have been exploring marbles and you just can t explore marbles without including a little marble painting in your planning. Do you celebrate earth day with your students.

Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture.