Ice Cube paintings

This was so much fun!  There were even parents that come in after we did the activity and were very excited about their child's artwork that came home!  We froze tempra paint in ice cube trays.  Before they froze we put sticks in the paint for a handle to paint with.  After they were frozen we took them out and let the kids go wild!  We had them try to write a few letters, but they were more interested in watching the ice paint melt.  Most of the kids made large circles on their paper, that was interesting!

It works best if you allow the ice paints to thaw for about 5 minutes before you start!  This was one of my favorites!  I even sat with the kids and made a beautiful picture!

Finger painting for place mats.

Our class needed something fancy to set the table with for our snack.  So I put down a large piece of butcher paper and got some finger paints out and let the kids have fun!  Then I took it home, cut the large paper down and backed over 20 pieces with construction paper then had it laminated.  I would suggest double laminating the place mats!  Ours did not stick together well, and when the kids spilled it got the paper inside wet.  I chose to do one large piece of butcher paper instead of individual pieces of paper so it would not take very long to set the snack table up with who sits with what place mat.  So this was a group project and everyone was involved in the outcome.  We do not use them any more, but they sure were pretty and fun to make!