Weather Themed Process Art: Scrape Painting + Coloring Mixing

Process art is quickly becoming one of our favorite activities around here. While we love fun crafts, discovering things through the process of art is simply magical and watching a 3 year old discover and truly love the process as much as the product gives me even more drive to want to offer these opportunities to her.

During our Weather Preschool unit, we spent several days on each of the types of weather. Trying to come up with a fun idea for storms was actually kind of tricky, but once my wheels got turning this storm cloud process art activity just kept growing and the process was so much fun for all of us.

This one simple activity consisted of so many different processes and so many skills were practiced: Color mixing, scrape painting, dabber painting, coloring with markers, fine motor practice. It simply was an all in one activity.

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THINGS YOU WILL NEED:

-Cardstock

-Black and white paint

-Yellow art materials whether it be paint, dot markers, markers, crayons etc. Let your littles decide.)

-Piece of cardboard

-Glue and scissors

TO CREATE:

I began by introducing color mixing. We have never discussed this before and it was the perfect opportunity to discuss how black and white makes grey in order to create our grey storm clouds.

I squirted some black and white paint on a piece of cardstock and gave Little Miss3 a piece of cardboard. I modeled how you can scrape it around the paper to move the paint all around and left her go to town on mixing and painting the paper. As she scraped I “oohed” and “ahhed” over how the colors on the paper were no longer black and white, but turning to grey. She found this completely mesmerizing and loved scraping that cardboard across the paper to keep mixing it all around.

She loved it so much that we ended up doing this to two different papers in order to create two different storm clouds.

We allowed these to dry and got to work on creating our lightening bolts. I gave Little Miss 3 the choice of what she wanted to use to create these and she chose her trusty Do-a-Dot art markers and then her Crayola washable markers. She got to stamping and coloring the lightening bolts in.

Once the clouds were dry, I cut out a cloud shape and she glued the lightening bolts to the back of the cloud.

And wah-la, our finished process art, scrape painted, color mixed, storm clouds.

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Looking for more Weather themed learning fun. Be sure to check out all of our other Weather Themed Preschool Posts for more learning inspiration.