Painting with Marbles

Learning Goals: Creativity, Child-Directed, Art, Colour Mixing, Self-Regulation

Option 1:

Provide students with marbles and ask them to dip it in chosen paint colour.

Encourage them to create art using the marble.

Option 2:

Line a bin with a piece of paper on the bottom.

Have students squirt blobs of paint into the bin for colours they want to include.

Place a marble in the bin and have students swirl it around to create an abstract painting.

Encourage students to remain calm when painting as painted marbles could go flying if the bin is shaken too much.
Bin, paper, marbles, paint to dip marbles, adult support may be needed for paint dipping.
This child-directed activity allows students to choose to play at this center, and create the art themselves, exploring different techniques to transfer the paint from the marble.

Implementation