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Preschool St. Patrick’s Day Watercolor Activity

February 27, 2017 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside:  Put together a preschool St. Patrick’s Day watercolor activity with tissue paper shamrocks! This idea combines color mixing with fine motor as the paint is squeezed from pipettes. Fun!

Okay, everyone, you know how much I love watercolor art. Well, I found a way to turn a color mixing lesson into vibrant St. Patrick’s Day watercolor shamrocks.

Remember my popular waterfall art? This uses the same method, but on a flat surface, not upright. Using pipettes strengthens the hands and fingers, essential for writing and scissors skills development. Any activity we have done using this nifty tool has been a hit with our preschoolers.

The end result? Well, scroll down to see. They are looking very festive hanging in our window!

Watercolor Shamrocks - Fine motor art for preschoolers - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

Preschool St. Patrick’s Day Watercolor Activity

The color of the month during March is green. We do several color mixing activities, such as our cardboard tube painting. I decided to make these watercolor shamrocks be another color mixing activity.

What we used:

  • Blue liquid watercolors
  • Yellow liquid watercolors
  • Pipettes
  • Coffee filters, cut into shamrocks


 

watercolor shamrocks

I set plastic trays on our art table, and then the coffee filter shamrocks on top. Because we do so many activities with pipettes, our preschoolers were already familiar on how to use them.

If your preschooler has not mastered this skill yet, I suggest practicing with water and an ice cube tray, as shown in our water transfer activity post.

watercolor shamrocks

As the 2 colors are dropped onto the shamrock, a third color appears. This is always magical!

watercolor shamrocks

A few of the preschoolers chose not to mix 2 colors, and that was fine. But the majority were more than excited to see what would happen using 2 colors.

watercolor shamrocks

When finished, move shamrocks onto a clean dry tray.

watercolor shamrocks

You can leave them as is, mount onto paper, or hang.

watercolor shamrocks

I love how they hang gracefully in our window!

Watercolor Shamrocks - Fine motor art for preschoolers - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

 

 

Now, head on over to my pin board to find hundreds more St. Patrick’s Day and rainbow activities!

 

15+ Shamrock activities for toddlers and preschoolers:

 

15+ Awesome Shamrock St. Patrick's Day Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

 

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Filed Under: Art, preschool, Spring Activities Tagged With: art, fine motor, preschool, spring, St. Patrick's Day

About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. [email protected]

    March 12, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    Love this idea, can’t wait to try it with my little ones. The spray starch – is this starch for clothes?

    • Sheryl @ Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

      March 13, 2012 at 2:15 am

      Yes, this is starch you spray on your clothes before ironing. Or so I think! Can you tell I don’t iron very much??

  2. Growing a Jeweled Rose

    March 12, 2012 at 10:41 pm

    I love how colorful the collages are! 🙂

  3. Sheryl @ Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

    March 13, 2012 at 2:16 am

    That’s what I loved – the intensity of the colors. When mounted on black paper, the colors REALLY popped.

  4. Kay Pugh

    March 28, 2012 at 6:04 pm

    i love this idea. Always looking for something cool to do with 5 grandkids who are 8 and under. How exactly did you color the pasta?

  5. Barbie Goodman

    February 19, 2014 at 10:19 pm

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  6. Barbie Goodman

    February 19, 2014 at 10:21 pm

    This is fantastic how did you colour the pasta thank you x

  7. Patricia Caruso

    February 22, 2014 at 7:51 am

    Like this idea but what is it exactly that they are learning, aside from the obvious colours? Curious to try but afraid will look like a mess rather than a teaching activity.

    • Sheryl Cooper

      February 22, 2014 at 9:15 am

      Great question! They used their fine motor skills spooning the macaroni onto the paper. They then used their fine motor skills squeezing the glue. They arranged the macaroni. And yes, they learned about colors. I personally am not afraid of mess, because I see the learning that is taking place, but I understand how others might not see it this way. I just love watching them explore in a hands-on way.

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