Inside: Looking for a fun preschool apple painting activity? Grab some paint and a salad spinner and watch your kids have fun!
New! I now have an apple printable you can download to use with this activity! Scroll down to find the link.
Preschool Apple Painting Activity Using a Salad Spinner
Materials needed:
Tempera paint (We used red, green, and yellow.)
Paper (or use my free apple printable – scroll down to find link)
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.)
Step 5: Remove the paper.
NEW! I’ve edited this post to add a free apple printable you can download and use with this preschool apple painting activity:
More apple ideas:
Apples, Apples, Everywhere! Preschool 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!
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Hi Sheryl. This looks so fun! Can I come play too?! Great pictures and the kids look like they’re having a blast! Thank you for sharing today! Pinned!
What a fun activity!
Oh wow! They’re beautiful, Sheryl! I have to dig out our salad spinner. My twos would love it! Thanks for the inspiration!
That’s such a great idea! Did you use fingerpaint for that? Greetings from Germany, laurence
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.
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 =)
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
These have turned out great! We havne’t done any spin art for a while but I like the apple idea.
Just letting you know I’ve featured this on The Sunday Showcase this week: http://www.herecomethegirlsblog.com/2013/10/19/art-for-kids.html
Just curious if this permanently stains the spinner? – Wouldn’t want to risk ruining my new one!