By Spramani Elaun
Hello folks!
I kicked off my art camp by hosting my annual little painters art camp in San Diego, using some themed Dr. Seuss books.
I had so much fun, and came up with so many process-based painting projects for kids.
I want to share some some of the projects we did with the focus of using – Oh, the Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss – Painting Art Project Kids
My little painters camp was for the small kids 3 – 7 years.
We spent 5 straight days painting over 30 different painting projects, each day themed Dr. Seuss.
Stay tuned I’m going to share new projects in my coming newsletter.
It was a spectacular colorful event!
The kids loved my themed days especially the Oh, the Places You’ll Go, by Dr. Seuss paint projects.
We did a number of processed-based projects for the little ones, and some more structured activities for my advance older students.
Oh, the Places You’ll Go, Dr Seuss – Painting Art Project
Oh, the Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss – Painting Art Project Kids:
- Automobile Tracks
- Giant Collaborative Canvas
- 3-D Collaborative Recycled Cardboard
- Paper Plate Mobile
- Paper Plate Mountains
All of these projects we painted using different tools to make textures like car wheels, paintbrushes, paint rollers, textured green rubber mat cut outs and their fingers!
Paints I used:
Kids Acrylic Paint – so paint would stick on to the canvas and archive long-term.
Washable Tempera Paint – so paint could wash off my wood deck and kids with ease.
Colors I used:
I mixed white paint into these colors to make all the pastel colors match the colors on the cover of Dr.Seuss book.
- Yellow
- Purple
- Blue
- Orange
- Red
I tinted the colors to make them brighter to match some of the story books I read. I mixed one part paint color to one part white paint, creating these soft pastel colors.
Teaching method I used:
I used my special science art method. This method uses three types of kids art styles to teach art literacy ideas, all based on my style of teaching, which I cover in most of my books and video training courses for teachers and parents.
Process-Based
Creative mode
Copy mode
I recommend doing one project at a time, I don’t recommend doing them all at once in one day, unless you’re a wild cat like me!
So what did we paint?
Automobile Tracks
I inspired the kids to make wheel track marks on the large canvas I had flat on tables, on paper I had in a baskets, all over our recycled cardboard structure, and even on paper the plates.
3-D Collaborative Recycled Cardboard
The kids painted over my recycled boxes and interesting cardboard structures I put together, even with the car wheels. The younger ones loved this!
Giant Collaborative Canvas
I had a canvas flat on the table surface so all the kids could paint together.
Using the art inspiration from the book Oh, the Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss
Paper Plate Mobile
I encouraged the kids to paint on both sides of the paper plate, then set aside to dry. After the paper plate was dry, we turned them into spiral cut mobiles.
Paper Plate Mountains – Oh, the Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss
I thought this was genus!
Like in the story, and cover of the book – there’s a spiral painted mountain top! All you need is a paper plate and paper roll.
I know you’ll love trying these painting art project for kids.
Warmly,
Spramani Elaun
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