Mouse paint

Have fun exploring colors with these fun (and free!) Mouse Paint activities and printables for preschool.

The art room echoed "Oh look, green!" and "I just made orange!" as first graders overlapped primary colors to make a background for their Mouse Paint mice. I used Ellen Stoll Walsh's Mouse Paint to reinforce the concept of primary and secondary colors. Students started with yellow cake tempera and painted about one third of their background, starting at the corner and brushing towards the center. Then, after getting their brushes REALLY clean they did the same with red paint, overlapping…

This is another little mouse book by Ellen Stoll Walsh. In this story the mice play in paint and use it to escape from a cat. I use this book to introduce/review color words at the beginning of the year. Here are some of our activities to go with the book. Click on each activity to grab your own copy. Here is a poem we put in our Poem and Song books. We highlight color words. This activity practices color words. We practice patterns with this activity. We read and spell color words with this…

Mouse Paint: Water Balloon Painting. A fun, hands on color mixing activity to go along with the book Mouse Paint. Your Pre-K, Preschool, or Kindergarten kids will LOVE painting their mice! - Pre-K Pages

Primary and Secondary Color Mice Mr. Giannetto read the book Mouse Paint to each first grade class. The book tells the story of three mice who jump and dance in jars of paint and in the process learn a lot about mixing colors. While combining art and literacy, this lesson also was a great way to review the primary and secondary colors. First, each student drew three mice and painted them using primary or secondary colors. After they dried, they were cut out and glued to white paper. Next…

Your little one tells you they want to paint. And you get that heavy sigh and think of the mess that you'll have to clean up afterward. But you know it's a great learning experience for them, so you smile and get all the supplies out. Hands on activities have so many benefits for our

Color mixing is a great activity for a preschooler to explore after learning all their colors. Below I have used a much loved book "Mouse Paint" and expanded on it with a printable and a

Grab this printable emergent reader along with the other Mouse Paint activities to build literacy skills with young children.

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