Marble Painting Earth

Experiment with several marbles at once and see how they interact to create unique patterns.

Marble painting earth.

Painting with marbles is a fun and engaging process. Each kid got a big white circle on a tray you could also use a large shoebox. Earth day art activity. If you re really adventurous try bouncing.

For today s activity we re going to need paint blue and green paint. How to water marble with acrylic paint. To begin you ll need white blue and green paint. To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer.

Marble painting earth. 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. 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. Today we did a super fun and easy craft using paint and marbles.

Put drops of blue and green paint all over and swirl with the straw. Take a white paper plate and press the bottom into the shaving cream. Press down so the whole plate is covered in paint. Every time i introduce marble painting to a group of preschoolers i change the process a bit.

These marble painted earths in space were a huge hit with my kindergarteners. If you do and are looking for a fun easy free earth day project you are in the right place. You can also use a spray bottle to apply the dye 4. Drop 1 drop of each food colors or paint evenly spread out on the shaving cream layer.

We put some dabs of blue and green finger paint on the circle and put a few marbles on each tray. Rockin and rollin repeat steps 1 4 with a few more colors of paint to create your masterpiece. Take it off and then use a straight edge wide popsicle stick to wipe off the shaving cream. 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.

Pair this with our spring centers and activities for prek and kindergarten. Dip your toothbrush into the white paint and then use your finger to carefully flick speckles of white paint onto your black cardstock paper. Drop the paint colored marble into the box on top of the paper and roll it around to create lines and swirls. 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.

Do this by pouring a small amount of white paint onto a paper plate or small paper bowl. Do you celebrate earth day with your students. While your marbled earth dries get your outer space background ready. You should be going for a milky look to your paint.

After all who doesn t love marble painting. Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture. 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. Now pretend you re looking at earth from outer space.

If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors.