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Drip Painting

Splatter and Drip

Day 127of 180
Week 26of 36
20Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Understand how paint moves and flows

2

Practice tilting paper to create drip patterns

3

Develop fine motor skills and creativity

📖 Scripture Connection

Proverbs 3:19

“Yahweh by wisdom founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.”

— Proverbs 3:19 (WEB)

Just as God carefully designed how things move and flow, we can explore how paint moves and creates beautiful patterns

📦 Materials Needed

  • thin watercolor paint
  • white construction paper
  • paint droppers
  • plastic tablecloth or newspaper
  • smock or old shirt
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (3 min)

Welcome to today's BibleMouse art adventure! Yesterday we learned about paint drops, and today we'll see how paint can drip and flow.

💭 Review Question: Can you remember how we used droppers yesterday?
2Teaching (7 min)

Today we'll learn how to make paint drip down our paper by tilting and moving it!

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Paint is like water - it can flow and move
  • When we tilt the paper, paint follows gravity
  • We can create beautiful patterns by moving the paper
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What happens when you tilt a cup of water?
  • Can you show me how you might make paint move?
3Activity: Drip Painting Adventure (8 min)
hands-on

Create colorful drip paintings by moving paint across paper

📝 Instructions:
  1. Put on your smock
  2. Put paper on a tilted surface
  3. Use dropper to add small paint drops
  4. Gently tilt paper and watch paint move
  5. Experiment with different tilting angles
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Parent helps child tilt paper

Challenge: Try multiple colors and more dramatic tilts

4Closing (3 min)

Let's look at our beautiful drip paintings!

📝 Review Questions:
  • What did the paint do when we tilted the paper?
  • What colors did you use?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll learn about splatter painting!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Drip painting helps develop fine motor skills and understanding of cause and effect

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Use thin paint for best dripping
  • Cover work surface completely
  • Let child lead exploration
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children might get frustrated if paint doesn't move exactly as they expect

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Excitement about paint movement, willingness to experiment

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Dry paintings and discuss shapes created
  • Use BibleMouse Printables Library for complementary art worksheets

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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