Experiment with several marbles at once and see how they interact to create unique patterns.
Marble painting earth.
Do this by pouring a small amount of white paint onto a paper plate or small paper bowl.
The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface.
If you were like me and had no kid paint on hand at home mine is all still at school here is the recipe for paint that we made yesterday.
Use a stick or toothpick to swirl through the shaving cream and color drops to spread the color out in streaks across the shaving cream.
You can also use a spray bottle to apply the dye 4.
Rockin and rollin repeat steps 1 4 with a few more colors of paint to create your masterpiece.
Pair this with our spring centers and activities for prek and kindergarten.
Drop the paint colored marble into the box on top of the paper and roll it around to create lines and swirls.
Press down so the whole plate is covered in paint.
You should be going for a milky look to your paint.
Earth day art activity.
If you re really adventurous try bouncing.
If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors.
Marble painting earth.
Take it off and then use a straight edge wide popsicle stick to wipe off the shaving cream.
We put some dabs of blue and green finger paint on the circle and put a few marbles on each tray.
Take a white paper plate and press the bottom into the shaving cream.
Drop 1 drop of each food colors or paint evenly spread out on the shaving cream layer.
To begin you ll need white blue and green paint.
I started out with 3 each but we decided to add more later.
These marble painted earths in space were a huge hit with my kindergarteners.
It was taken by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and is one of the most reproduced images in history.
After all who doesn t love marble painting.
Today we did a super fun and easy craft using paint and marbles.
Do you celebrate earth day with your students.
Dip your toothbrush into the white paint and then use your finger to carefully flick speckles of white paint onto your black cardstock paper.
While your marbled earth dries get your outer space background ready.
As you might have guessed we have been exploring marbles and you just can t explore marbles without including a little marble painting in your planning.
Painting with marbles is a fun and engaging process.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer.
Every time i introduce marble painting to a group of preschoolers i change the process a bit.
Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture.
If you do and are looking for a fun easy free earth day project you are in the right place.
How to water marble with acrylic paint.
Each kid got a big white circle on a tray you could also use a large shoebox.
Put drops of blue and green paint all over and swirl with the straw.
