Art! Painting! Storytime


 

Books:

I ain't gonna paint no more by Karen Beaumont (2005)

(a child gets carried away painting and ends up painting his/her entire body)

Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh (1989, 1995)

(three little mice are hiding from a cat and end up mixing paint colors while doing so)

I'm the best artist in the ocean by Kevin Sherry (2008)

(a giant squid gets carried away painting a masterpiece that drips paint everywhere)

Blue Chicken by Deborah Freedman (2011)

(a little chicken wants to help paint but ends up spilling blue paint all over everything)

 

supply mini watercolor containers, water, and paintbrushes and have the children "paint" their coloring pages

For really little kids you can set out just water and paintbrushes or sidewalk chalk and paper

Other options are fingerpaints, pudding paint, or chalk