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Sponge Painting (Art is all around us!)

Art Activity “Sponge/Balloon Painting” We worked together in small groups and used scrubby kitchen sponges and balloons filled with different materials to create a collage: Dip sponges/balloons into paint, then paint with them on a big piece of paper. 

We also practiced good sportsmanship by playing our color matching/memory game again (see 5/21/2013).

At Clubhouse, we talk a lot about kindness and friendship. Helping each other is a very important friendship concept:

Being a good role model: Helping a younger Clubhouse friend cleaning her hands after an art project.

Canvas Marble Painting (Art is all around us!)

Today, we practiced and discussed how to get our friends' attention when we would like to talk to them:

CANVAS MARBLE PAINTING

We had a lot of fun with the marble painting on canvas. Using a canvas instead of the traditional method of using a deep tray and paper has the advantage that the activity requires more cooperation since the box with the canvas needs to be managed by multiple children.

Here is how it works:

> Materials  needed: big self-made cardboard box to fit in the canvas, canvas, bowls of paint (different colors), variety of marbles, spoons.

>Build a cardboard box so that the canvas will fit into the box.

>Split the kids into smaller groups (max 4 per box).

>Drop marbles into bowls of washable tempera paint (one kid at a time). Use the spoons to scoop out the marbles and drop them onto the canvas. 

>Let the kids pick up the box with the canvas Station kids around the sides of the canvas as well as the top and bottom. Encourage them to work together to move the canvas up and down causing the marbles to roll back and forth and around. Stop after a couple of minutes, put the marbles in the paint and back on the canvas, and repeat.