Painting activity for three-year-olds
Introduction
Three-year-olds can benefit from painting by enhancing their imagination. This helps them get a superior picture of the world round them. This is a proper way for three-year-olds to start learning and upgrading to learning harder things. Painting also enables three-year-olds to know how to use writing materials such as pencils and crayons. Painting increases the imagination of the three-year-olds and helps them to differentiate between the many colors that exist.
Lesson plan
Painting of the family portrait
Learning objectives
The three-year-olds will learn about language and other social benefits. Painting helps three-year-olds to acquire the ability to share equipments with other three-year-olds. They also learn to clean their mess when they do so. Another benefit to this is that they acquire the experience to create shapes and play with them. This helps them to enhance their imagination since they combine the shapes to make new shapes. They also learn about colors and how they when they combine them. The use of textures helps the three-year-olds to increase their developmental benefits. This happens when they play with the paint and are able to feel the paint using their hands and fingers. Three-year-olds will learn to spell words with the use of paint as they get older.
As they paint, the portrait of the family, they will know of the members that comprise the family. These are the father, mother, brother and sisters. The three-year-olds will also learn of the roles that each family member plays. The three-year-old understands that the father is the head of the family and is the sole provider whereas the mother takes care of the family. Brothers and sisters give company and act as friends and protectors in the case of the older ones.
Painting will help them to develop the skill of eye coordination and motor skills. This is a good objective since they also develop their gross motor skills. One benefit to this learning objective is that the three-year-olds learn to control their muscles. Another learning objective is that they will develop their spatial awareness skills. The three-year-olds learn to combine different shapes and hence learn about volume. The three-year-olds learn about how colors combine to produce different colors. Another learning objective is that they learn about different textures and thickness when painting.
Supplies
The materials that the three-year-olds need include:
- Pencils for sketching
- A picture showing the members of a family
- Brush
- Watercolor paint
- Newsprint (for cleaning up)
- Paper to paint on
- Rubber
Systematic guide
- Watch carefully the family portrait
- Sketch the portrait on the plain paper
- Rub any errors in the sketch
- Ensure that the sketch is precise
- Prepare the watercolor paint
- Mix it thoroughly to produce a good paint
- Dip the brush in the paint
- Let the excess paint drip inside the container with paint
- Paint thoroughly inside the family portrait sketch
- Expose the freshly painted portrait in the sun
- Let it dry
Safety guidelines
There are safety guidelines that three-year-olds need to observe. The teacher should help them to do this. They should ensure that they do not put paint into their mouth as this may lead to poisoning. After the painting session, they need to wash their hands with soap to remove any paint from their hands.
