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Preschool Apple Painting Activity Using a Salad Spinner

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 Inside: Looking for a fun preschool apple painting activity? Grab some paint and a salad spinner and watch your kids have fun!

 

When I first heard about using a salad spinner at the art table, I could not fathom it.

 

In fact, I might have waited a couple of years before actually giving the salad spinner method a try.

 

Now I love it so much that we’ve used it to make Christmas trees and Valentine hearts, even spiders!

 

Young children love this activity because once they learn the steps involved, they can do the entire process by themselves. This activity is especially enjoyed by our energetic children who love all the movement that is involved.

 

All you need is a salad spinner, paper, and paint for this fun apple spin art activity!!

New! I now have an apple printable you can download to use with this activity! Scroll down to find the link.

  Looking for a fun preschool apple painting activity? Grab some paint and a salad spinner and watch your kids have fun!

 

Preschool Apple Painting Activity Using a Salad Spinner

 

Materials needed:

Squeeze bottles

Tempera paint (We used red, green, and yellow.)

Salad spinner

Paper (or use my free apple printable – scroll down to find link)

 


Apple Spin Art

Getting started:

We cut our paper into apple shapes that would fit in our salad spinner. We then filled our plastic bottles with paint.

 

The process:

We showed the children each step and stood by in case they needed help.

 

Step 1: Place the paper in the spinner basket.

Step 2: Squirt paint onto the paper. (Note: You will want to be close by to show them when to stop, or they will want to squeeze all of the paint out. Trust me on this.)

Apple Spin Art

Apple Spin Art
Step 3: Place the lid on the the salad spinner and make it move.
Apple Spin Art
 Our 3 spinners each have different tops. This particular one required two palms to press down. The other has a handled that gets pulled and pushed, and the third has a handle that gets turned in circles. Each has its own experience, so we put them all out.
Step 4: Remove the top.

 

Apple Spin Art
Apple Spin Art

Step 5: Remove the paper.

Apple Spin Art
We let our apples dry and used them to create our apple tree bulletin board.

Apple Spin Art 9
Our apple tree is quite fruitful!

NEW! I’ve edited this post to add a free apple printable you can download and use with this preschool apple painting activity:

Free apple printable

How to Paint Apples Using a Salad Spinner

 

More apple ideas:

fun preschool apple theme activities

Apples, Apples, Everywhere! Preschool Pack

 

Preschool Apples Learning Pack

Description

With just over 90 pages of activities and resources, this apple theme pack is a great way to fill and enhance you fall theme units this school year.

Perfect for both preschoolers and kindergartners, this pack includes:

  • Connect the Dot and Do-A-Dot pages
  • Play Dough Mats
  • Apple Graphing
  • Lacing Cards
  • Counting & Number Word Recognition Puzzles
  • Apple Seed Counting (2 ways)
  • Tic-Tac-Toe Boards
  • A Fingerprint Apple Counting Book
  • Upper and Lowercase Letter Sorting
  • Cutting Practice
  • Apple Patterns
  • Apple Tracing
  • Craft & Snack Ideas
  • and more!

>>>>>Click here to learn more.<<<<<

 

 

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  4. That’s such a great idea! Did you use fingerpaint for that? Greetings from Germany, laurence

  5. What an awesome project. It reminds me of marble painting where you stick a sheet of plain paper inside a shoe box, squirt it with paint, add a few marbles and roll them around. My kids loved it and I think they would have loved this too.

  6. Your apples came out so cute! What a fun way to make them!

    Thanks for linking up to TGIF! I hope to see you linked up again later today.

    Have a great weekend,
    Beth =)

  7. LOVE this art project! We are featuring you tomorrow on Share it Saturday over at Sugar Aunts. Thanks for linking up and see you again 🙂
    Colleen at Sugar Aunts

  9. Just curious if this permanently stains the spinner? – Wouldn’t want to risk ruining my new one!