Here’s a really fun fall art activity that will get toddlers and preschoolers moving and shaking while they explore the colours of Fall. Golf balls, paint and a cardboard box are all you’ll need for this easy activity.
We’re doing lots of fall crafts here in my daycare these days, and the kids have really enjoyed some of the fall art projects we’ve done.
We’re trying a really fun art process that I’ve seen all over the we lately – painting with GOLF BALLS!
To be honest, when I’ve seen this activity online, people usually use marbles and paint, but we don’t have any marbles, so we’re improvising with golf balls.
So fun!
This was one of the funnest art activities the toddlers and preschoolers have done this year. I love that it’s easy enough for even the youngest children to have complete control over.
Before the kids got started on this easy art project, we talked about Fall in general. We discussed how Fall can also be referred to as Autumn, how the weather turns cooler, how the leaves fall of the trees, and how those leaves turn colour. Then we looked at the trees around us, and noted what colours of leaves we could see. The children identified the colours red, orange, yellow and brown.
I asked them if they’d like to create some fall art in those colours, and of course they were excited. They jumped up and down, saying “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!”. Don’t you love how excited little kids get about the simplest things?
To do this Fall Art Activity, you’ll need:
- Cardboard box
- white paper or card stock
- paint
- golf balls
Painting with golf balls:
We put a piece of white cardboard (you can use any kind of paper, or card-stock. We just happen to have a lot of white cardboard) into the bottom of a cardboard box. Then we dribbled Tempra Paint onto the white cardboard (this was the only part of the activity that I participated in, simply because I wanted to control the amount of paint that went into the box – you don’t need a lot.
The Hooligans tossed the golf balls in, and then they tipped, tilted, jiggled and shook the box, and let the golf balls do their thing.
They jumped and bounced and danced around, shaking the box back and forth and up and down, watching the golf balls make tracks through the paint.
They found it so exciting to watch their white paper transform into a colourful piece of art.
I loved that they were all so supportive and encouraging of whoever was shaking the box.
They cheered each other on, saying “Good job”, “That’s the way!”, and “You’re doing it!” to each other.
The results were truly beautiful!
What was really neat, was because the centre of the golf ball is making the tracks, our paintings naturally had an unpainted white border all around the edges.
If your toddlers and preschoolers haven’t tried painting with golf balls, you have to give this art activity a try! It’s so, and the kids will have a blast.
I think these pieces will look lovely displayed in our play room.
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Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She specializes in kids’ crafts and activities, easy recipes, and parenting. She began blogging in 2011, and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.
