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    You are here: Home / Art and Crafts Activities / Simple Themed Art Project: Shiny

     

    Simple Themed Art Project: Shiny

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    We've been engaged in some screen-free fun lately and I find a great way to approach art project sessions is to pick a simple theme and center a process art project around that theme. This week the art themes were "shiny" and "blue" art.

    Child making Shiny art themed project by spreading blue glitter, silver paint on foil paper.

    We started with a visit to the art store down the street where we picked out shiny and blue materials. We chose glitter, shiny blue paper (which I didn't end up using, after all) and shiny silver paint.

    Continuing with the shiny art theme, I wrapped wrapped some tin foil around a piece of cardboard and set out silver and blue paint in trays. In Maryann Kohl's Preschool Art book, she suggests adding dish soap to the paint to make it stick to the foil better.

    Child's hand using blue spoon to spread blue glitter over blue paint  on piece of foil.

    The glitter was the biggest hit! Piles and piles of glitter on painted foil!

    After the excess glitter was shaken off, the artwork looked like this:

    Blue glitter and blue paint on large piece of foil.

    Perhaps it's not a masterpiece, but it's all about the process, right?

    Since the brushes were covered with glitter, I thought it might be fun to paint with them on plain paper. As you can see, the glitter clumped up, but that was no impediment to fun.  

    Blue paint and glitter on white paper.

    ...and later with some more silver paint, although the paint looks grey after it dries.

    Blue and silver paint and glitter on white paper.

    Process oriented art around a simple theme: try it!

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    1. Jenny says

      March 11, 2008 at 12:56 am

      It looks like Kiddo enjoyed the shiny blue project. I wonder what it is about kids that makes them want to pile on the medium? I gave CJ some glitter glue last week (have you ever tried that?) and she really liked squirting glob on top of glob. I like your idea of the separate art blog, BTW- I'm already wondering where to put all of her "creations".

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    2. Piseco says

      March 11, 2008 at 1:02 am

      I love the idea of going to the art store and saying - "Pick out something shiny and blue." My son would really get a kick out of an outing like that. Thanks for sharing!

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    3. Michie says

      March 11, 2008 at 1:36 am

      I also like the idea of letting your son pick out the shiny item. It makes it kind of like a scavenger hunt! My daughter also likes to pile on whatever she's using all in one area. Yesterday she kept putting all her paint in one small corner of her paper. 🙂

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    4. Heather says

      March 11, 2008 at 3:02 pm

      You are a very brave women to let your child loose in the art store. Mine would have picked out so much (I can nt resist craft supplies) I would have gone bankrupt. Great ideas though.

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    5. reprehriestless warillever says

      March 11, 2008 at 6:55 pm

      I'm not so sure that I could set all of them loose in the art store at once, but I may let one of the Agents pick out art supplies the next time we go on a one-on-one date.

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    6. Mom Unplugged says

      March 11, 2008 at 8:17 pm

      Glitter! What a great shiny project! It is a nice change from those of us who were obsessed with foil this week. Kiddo must be in a sensitive period for Blue and making piles. Sorry about the vacuuming!

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