Audience Title
- Kids
Time Estimation
- 20 min
What you need:
- Jumbo Washable Squeeze Paintbrushes
- Jumbo Creamy Crayons
- Easy Peel Stickable Colouring Roll
- Waterproof Art smock
- Music
Skill Level
Messy Points
Step 1
Choose music to listen to while you paint. It can be anything: orchestra-filled classical music, brilliant brass jazz or a bright pop music. It’s as simple as putting on the radio or picking a playlist of favourite songs and painting to the music.
Step 2
Put on your Waterproof Art Smock. Place a large sheet of your Easy Peel Stickable Colouring Roll onto a big vertical surface.
Step 3
While the music is playing, place your Jumbo Washable Paint Brush on the page and paint the sound that you hear. Make lines, squiggles or dots.
Step 4
Try it again, this time experiment with different music to explore different emotions.
Tip 1
After the music stops, look at the painting. Ask your children, “How does your painting make you feel? Are you excited or calm?”.
Tip 2
Creating on a vertical surface like this is very beneficial for core strength, crossing the midline, bilateral coordination and spatial awareness. These skills are all beneficial when it comes time to learn how to write.
Big Thinkers
Music makes our minds develop and can make new pathways! Music sparks our brain, helping us to become more creative.
Skill Development
Sensory Development: Responding to music activates neurological pathways.
Hand-Eye Coordination & Bilateral Coordination: Drawing on a vertical surface strengthens the core and the body in relation to spatial awareness.
Visual Perception: Children learn to associate patterns and shapes with ideas and emotions.
Pre-writing: Fostering hand-eye coordination, bilateral coordination & visual perception are all important pre-writing skills.
EYLF Outcome 3a: Children become strong in their social and emotional wellbeing.
EYLF Outcome 3b: Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.
EYLF Outcome 5b: Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts.
EYLF Outcome 5c: Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media
Hand-Eye Coordination & Bilateral Coordination: Drawing on a vertical surface strengthens the core and the body in relation to spatial awareness.
Visual Perception: Children learn to associate patterns and shapes with ideas and emotions.
Pre-writing: Fostering hand-eye coordination, bilateral coordination & visual perception are all important pre-writing skills.
EYLF Outcome 3a: Children become strong in their social and emotional wellbeing.
EYLF Outcome 3b: Children take increasing responsibility for their own health and physical wellbeing.
EYLF Outcome 5b: Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts.
EYLF Outcome 5c: Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media