I kicked off my art camp using Dr. Seuss books paint projects. And, we had so much fun! So, I wanted I would share how I came up with these painting projects for kids. And how I used the book, Oh, the Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss – Painting Art Project Kids. In my art camp I usually teach all early childhood ages, plus some elementary grades. Plus, all ages love these painting art projects, because most kids have read a few of Dr. Seuss books.
30 Paint Projects
We spent five straight days painting over 30 different types of art projects, each day themed Dr. Seuss books. It was a spectacular colorful event, kids love these themed painting project days! Especially, Oh, the Places You’ll Go, by Dr. Seuss . We did a number of processed-based projects for the little ones, and some more structured activities for the older students. Listed below are some of the five art projects.
The 5 Dr. Seuss Paint Projects
- Automobile Tracks
- Giant Collaborative Canvas
- 3-D Collaborative Recycled Cardboard
- Paper Plate Mobile
- Paper Plate Mountains
All of these painting we used different tools to make textures like car wheels, paintbrushes, paint rollers, textured green rubber mat cut outs and their fingers!
Kids Paints
So, I usually use three types of paints for my art camp activities. Because acrylic paint, tempera washable paint and watercolor work best. And Kids Acrylic Paint will stick well on canvas. In particualrly this paint archive long-term. So, Washable Tempera Paint so paint can wash off my wood deck and kids with ease.
Dr. Seuss Colors
Start with mixing white paint into these colors to create pastel colors. You want the colors to be similar to the cover of Dr. Seuss book. Plus, a fun painting project older children. Learning how to crate tints with white paint. I tinted the colors to make them brighter to match some of the story books I read. And finally, mix one part paint-to-one part white, so to create soft pastel colors.
- White (to tint colors)
- Yellow
- Purple
- Blue
- Orange
- Red
Crazy Painting Tools
- Rolling pins
- Car wheels
- Wide paintbrushes
- texture makers (green plastic shelf runner)
- Sponges
3 paint methods
I’ve been teaching kids for a long time. I discovered that using different teaching styles is better for them. Over thirty years of teaching art I’m come up with my own teaching style. This is a hands-on ways to for kids to learning painting. It’s called my science art method. My method mixes different ways of teaching like process-based and choice-based. I also made two methods: creative-mode and copy-mode. You can learn more about teaching art to kids in my books. I talk about it a lot in my books and videos for teachers and parents.
- Process-based
- Choice-based
- Sensory
I recommend doing one project at a time, I don’t recommend doing them all at once in one day, unless you’re a wild cat like me!
5 Fun Dr. Seuss paint activities
Automobile Tracks
I inspired the kids to make wheel track marks on the large canvas. I had the canvas flat on tables, or paper in baskets. We recycled cardboard structures, and even painted on paper the plates.
3-D Collaborative Recycled Cardboard
The kids painted over my recycled boxes and interesting cardboard structures I put together. Even with the car wheels, the kids loved and had fun!
Giant Collaborative Canvas
I had a canvas flat on the table surface so all the kids could paint together. Using the art inspiration from the book Oh, the Places You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss
Paper Plate Mobile
I encouraged the kids to paint on both sides of the paper plate, then set aside to dry. After the paper plate was dry, we turned them into spiral cut mobiles.
Paper Plate Mountains
I thought this was genus! Like in the story, and cover of the book in Dr. Seusses book, Oh, the Places You’ll Go, there’s a spiral painted mountain top! All you need is a paper plate and paper roll. I know you’ll love trying these painting art project for kids.
Warmly,
Spramani Elaun
A Short Cut Just for You
If you’d like to learn more about all getting kids painting, read my book, Kids Painting.
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