Finger Paint & Painting Tips for Kinders and PreK, Spramani Elaun

Finger Paint & Painting Tips for Kinders & Pre-K

By Spramani Elaun

In this blog I want to share some quick pointers if your setting finger painting up for the first time.

Finger painting is known as starter painting for little children using their fingers.

Painting with little fingers is perfect for starting early childhood children out with.

Finger painting is usually for discovery and exploratory paint play.

Working with finger paint is also easy to wash off little hands, and will not stain long-term.

Buying Finger Paints

If you’re looking to purchase finger paint, here’s some things you should know.

Finger paint has pigments and special binders to make it easy to wash off any surface.

Finger paint is safe and non toxic for little kids.

Finger paints texture is usually thick and slippery.

Paints come commercially in bottles and are ready to use.

Finger Paints comes in a large variety of colors to choose from.

Finger Paint Play Set-up

I like to introduce my students with the basic primary colors in the beginning like red, yellow and blue.

We usually start off with fingers, and paintbrushes, which is easy for them to try.

Use paper and cardboard as starter surfaces to paint on.

Put finger paints into wide bowls, or large wide palettes.

Allow kids to discovery and explore with paints. (Read more about discovery exploratory art, click here).

Let kids to discover and play rather than directing instructions.

Young kids new to finger painting will explore paints by tasting or smelling.

Just be calm and allow kids to test, then say, “now let’s paint with our fingers on paper, watch me!”

Demonstrate finger paint movements.

It will take some time for young children to understand how to finger paint play, but they all eventually do!

If you would like to learn more about teaching kids, order my complete guide to teaching kids to paint, full color book – Kids Painting.

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