Art and Play

Hello! Here is the list of 22 activities with supply links from the Fairy Dust Teaching Summer 2019 conference:

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Since I use tempera paint in so many of these projects, I wanted to share with you the paints that I buy.

Tempera Paints

~ Crayola – I buy my primaries (red, blue, yellow), my secondaries (orange, purple, green) and a large white from Crayola. I always add white to my colors because it makes them more opaque which is good when covering brown cardboard.

~ Ras, Chromatemp, or Versa – If you can find these brands in your local art store, they are the best. They are thicker than Crayola and work well when using rollers (like for the bubble wrap tree). I buy the gold and metallics from Versa on Amazon, but the other colors I buy at my local art store. You can also find Ras at Jerry’s Artarama.

~ Sax – I use this brand for neon pink! I add a little white to this color, too.

~ These are my favorite paint brushes: smaller plastic brushes for watercolor, bigger wooden brushes for tempera paint in size 8 round and size 10 round.

1. Drawing with Feet

~ Butcher paper (in either white or brown)

~ Masking tape (to tape to the walls)

~ Pencils or markers, or anything that can fit between their toes

2. Bubble Wrap Roller Printing

~ Butcher paper (in either white or brown)

~ Masking tape

~ Bubble wrap

~ Rolling pins (large wooden, or smaller plastic)

~ Tempera paint

~ Trays to hold the paint

3. Bubble Wrap Tree Printing

~ Bubble wrap, try to collect some different textures

~ Duct tape

~ A good quality tempera paint that is thick, not runny (go to the top to read about the thicker tempera paints)

~ Brayers

~ Trays to hold the paint

~ Paper – I use sulphite paper and cut it up into different sizes, but you can just use white copy paper if that’s what you have handy.

4. Giant Coffee Filter Painting

~ Extra large coffee filters, which I get on Discount School Supply

~ Kitchen twine

~ Clothespins

~ Liquid watercolor

5. Toothbrush Painting

~ Toothbrushes

~ Liquid watercolor or tempera paint

~ Any 3D surface, or canvas

6. Plexiglass Printmaking

~ Plexiglass box frames

~ Tempera paint

~ Paintbrushes and other mark-making tools, like toothbrushes or Q-tips

~ Paper (I use sulphite paper, cut to a size slightly bigger than the frame)

~ Brayers are optional

7. Musical Chairs

~ Flat cardboard pieces

~ Tempera paint

~ Brushes

8. Egg Carton Village

~ Egg cartons, I used about 50

~ Giant box, our is from an IKEA couch

~ Tempera paint and brushes

~ Small Collage materials (pom-poms, cut up straws, craft sticks, beads, crumpled paper balls, bottle tops, pasta, mini cupcake liners)

~ Glue

8. Recycled Collage

~ A collection of recycled materials (egg cartons, tubes, packaging, corks) + craft sticks optional

~ A large piece of flat cardboard

~ Hot glue gun

~ Clear packing tape or masking tape to tape to wall (or you can lean it up against the wall, or put it on a table)

~ Tempera paint

10. Cotton Rounds and Pipettes

~ Cotton rounds

~ Liquid watercolor

~ Pipettes

11. Mallet Smash

~ Cotton rounds

~ Small squares of paper (I used sulphite paper and cut up a lot of pieces)

~ Tempera paint in squeeze bottles (IKEA also has a great set)

~ Drop cloth

~ Mallets

12. Muffin Tin Prints

~ Muffin tins

~ Tempera paint

~ Brushes

~ Small pieces of square paper (I used white or gray sulphite paper)

13. Water Balloon Painting

~ Water balloons

~ Tempera paint

~ Paper (I use 12″ x 18″ sulphite paper for the smaller boxes, and butcher paper for the large box)

~ Big box or smaller boxes

~ Masking tape to tape down paper for big box

14. Plexiglass Tracing

~ Plexiglass

~ Dry erase markers

~ Paper towel or cloth to wipe off markers

15. Jackson Pollock Painting

~ Cotton tarp or large piece of fabric

~ Tempera paint in squeeze bottles (we used the IKEA set)

~ Foam rollers and/or brayers

16. Cardboard Playhouse

~ A big box

~ Some scissors & tape – to shape the box into a house

~ Tempera paint

~ Foam rollers

~ Fabric squares and glue are optional

17. Painted Blocks

~ Unfinished wooden blocks (I got 1.5″ and 2″ cubes)

~ Liquid watercolor

~ Jars & brushes

18. Shoebox Rooms

~ Shoeboxes

~ Flat cardboard pieces, to glue shoeboxes on

~ Materials table (wooden bits and pieces beads, spools, corks, bottle caps, shells, craft wire, straws, recycled cardboard tubes and plastic containers, fabric, ribbon, stickers, colored paper, clothespins for people, and more)

~ Glues: hot glue gun station, white glue, clear blue glue, glue stick

~Tapes: colored masking tapes, washi tapes, scotch tape

19. Shoebox Mansion

~ Shoeboxes or small boxes

~ Materials table (jumbo craft sticks, small googly eyes, playdough, and check out the list right above this)

~  White glue

~ Tapes: colored masking tapes, washi tapes, scotch tape

20. Puppet Theatre

~ A sheet, cut down to fit in a doorway

~ Liquid watercolor

~ Black tempera paint

~ Scissors

~ Baker’s twine

~ Adjustable closet pole

21. Post Office

~ Mailbox, make it yourself

~ Cardstock

~ Envelopes

~ Watercolors (I’m loving this set from OOLY these days, but we also stock and use this set all the time, and fluorescent tempera cakes are a fave, too)

~ Other supplies you could use: markers, stickers, paper punches, black paper, colored paper, glue stick

22. Cardboard Cake

~ 3 boxes in scaled size

~ Tempera paint

~ Colored paper

~ Pom-poms, and other collage material if you want to extend the activity

~ Glue