📖

Painting Our Sculpture

Building with Boxes

Day 108of 180
Week 22of 36
20Minutes
← Day 107Day 108 of 180Day 109 →
🖨️ Download Worksheet (PDF)
🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Explore color mixing and painting techniques

2

Apply paint to their box sculpture creatively

3

Practice fine motor skills while painting

📖 Scripture Connection

Exodus 35:31-32

“He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs”

— Exodus 35:31-32 (WEB)

God gives us creativity to make beautiful things and enjoy creating, just like we're doing with our box sculpture today!

📦 Materials Needed

  • Box sculpture from previous lesson
  • Washable tempera paints
  • Paint brushes
  • Paint smock or old shirt
  • Paper towels
  • Plastic tablecloth
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Today's BibleMouse lesson is all about adding color to our special box sculpture!

💭 Review Question: Can you show me the box sculpture we made yesterday?
2Teaching (7 min)

Let's learn about painting our sculpture and using colors creatively

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Painting helps us make our sculpture special
  • We can use different colors and brush strokes
  • God loves to see us being creative!
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What colors do you want to use?
  • How can we make our sculpture look fun?
3Activity: Colorful Sculpture Painting (8 min)
hands-on

Paint the box sculpture with bright, fun colors

📝 Instructions:
  1. Put on your paint smock
  2. Choose 2-3 colors of paint
  3. Use brushes to cover your sculpture
  4. Try different brush strokes - dots, lines, swirls
  5. Let paint dry on a paper towel
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Use one color and help child paint

Challenge: Try mixing colors to create new shades

4Closing (3 min)

Look at our beautiful, colorful sculpture!

📝 Review Questions:
  • What colors did you use?
  • How does your sculpture look now?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll add special decorations to our painted sculpture!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Painting is a great sensory activity for PK3 children

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Cover work surface completely
  • Have wet wipes ready for quick clean-up
  • Praise effort over perfection
🤔 Common Struggles:

Staying within painting area, not mixing colors too much

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Enjoyment of process, attempt to use brush, engagement with activity

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library for color-related worksheets
  • Sing a color song from BibleMouse Song Collection

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

Continue to Day 109 →Back to Art