You will need 6 balloons (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple), a paint palette, a large sheet of paper and coloured paint (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple). These balloons are not water balloons, we used regular party balloons filled with air as they are much stronger.
Intention
Creativity and imagination.
Sensory exploration.
Experimentation and discovery.
Building self-esteem, a sense of satisfaction.
Fine Motor Development.
Hand-Eye Coordination and Control.
Cause and Effect.
Overcoming challenges and problem solving.
Language development – describing process.
Communicating art ideas and making connections with our world.
Colour recognition.
Implementation
Place the green balloon in the green paint, red balloon into the red paint and so on.
We also placed the activity onto a large activity because the balloons become slippery and children may also like to roll the balloons around the paper.
We only inflated the balloons slightly, providing enough volume for small hands to hold and grasp.
The rainbow coloured balloons inspired a rainbow pattern painting which starts off by creating large blobs of paint prints onto the paper. It later ends up in a sensory messy experience with rolling balloons and all the paint mixed together into one brown paint colour. It will be so much fun!
Some Ideas:
Count out loud as each blob of paint is pressed onto the paper with the balloon.
Set a challenge, can you cover the whole page with paint? Start on the outside of the paper and work your way to the middle of the page.
Mix the paints and create new colours.
Use the painted paper as gift wrap or as a book cover.
Read stories that have balloons and talk about how balloons are used in our world.
