LEVEL: Pre-school and very Early Primary (5+)

A colourful and fun printmaking lesson for the classroom.
This great summertime outdoor art activity is ideal for good hot weather.

Tennis Ball Prints with School Paints
You will need the following:
: Paper
: Tempera Poster Paint with some shallow paint trays
: Tennis Balls – old ones are ideal.
: Apron, old shirts – plus paper towels.​

Let’s get started:
Before you start, ensure that painting surfaces are well-protected. It is a good idea to have children wear protective aprons or smocks.
- Supervision is also necessary as kids love to throw balls.
- Pour some paint into shallow trays – 3 or 4 colours should be enough.
- Dip the balls into the FAS Super Tempera paint. It is better not to over-wet the tennis balls. Try to avoid it being all too drippy. But sometimes, the drippy-ness adds to the final artwork.
- Dab or drop the tennis balls one at a time onto the blank paper.

Hang and allow to dry.

TIPS:  
- Sometimes, brushing paint onto the tennis ball gives you more control.
- Try to cover only one side of the tennis ball
- Use clean, bright colours.
- Don’t pour the used paint back into the bottles

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Learn how to Monoprint with schools paints.
Great colourful school art project using FAS Super Tempera.
Monoprint is a form of printmaking where the image can only be made once, unlike most printmaking which allows for multiple originals.

LEVEL: Pre-school and Primary.
This is a quick, colourful and easy project for the classroom. It is block printing in its simplest form using Tempera Poster Paint with fingers, and kids do love pushing paint around with their fingers.

Let's get started:
Monoprints are a simple and quick one-colour art form in that you cover a large area of the printing plate with Super Tempera Poster Paint. Your images are created by finger painting a basic design in the paint on the plate. Then gently place your paper over the design and lift it off.

Mono printing: Rolling out the tempera paint
1. Spread Tempera Paint evenly over your printing plate using a wide brush or roller. Making sure that it is slightly smaller than your paper. It is not essential to make it straight edged in fact, this will add to the final effect.

2. Using fingers, draw designs on the painted area. The more simple and more basic picture, the better. You are trying to remove the paint with your finger as you draw your design. If you are unhappy with the design, you can re-roll the area and start again.

3.  When you're happy with your design, lay the paper on top and cover the area with paint. Try to press on the painted area sparingly and keep the paper from moving around, as it will smudge your final design.  

4. Carefully peel the paper from the printing plate to reveal the mono-printed image. 

5. The printing plate can be reworked to be used again and again for the whole class.

6. Allow for drying.
 
Monoprinting Kids can make fun and interesting designs.


TIPS:  
- Keep it to one colour.
- Printing plate: needs to be a wipeable surface.
- Less is more. Try not to overdo the designs.
- Your designs will always come out in a reversed mirror image.
- Pressing hard on the paper while printing can turn your image into a blotchy mess.  
- The children decided to do fish with blue paint and flowers with red paint.

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Get amazing professional artist results with this simple painting technique.  

You will need a good quality acrylic art paint, a range of colours including white. 
Two to three clean flat brushes but remember to slightly dampen the brushes before you start to paint.

Painted by WOWart Learning - Singapore

FAS Student Acrylic Paint:
https://www.faspaints.com/fine-art-student-acrylic.html

LEVEL: Pre-school and Primary.

A is a fun and simple way for kids to make colourful pictures.
Every painting is unique, and there is very little involved in the setup—lots of fun.
 
String Painting Art with School Paints
You will need:
: Super Tempera Paint  or a wash off paint & Paintbrush
: String cut in about 30cm (12”) lengths.
: Shallow Plates or trays
: Paper
: Apron and a cover sheet or newspapers – plus paper towels.

Let’s get started:
Cover the table with newspaper.
Pour a little Tempera paint into the shallow trays. One colour only per tray.

Dip the string into the Tempera Paint, leaving one end unpainted to hold on to.  

Use your paintbrush to push the string into the paint, making sure it is well covered.

Use your paintbrush to push the string into the paint, making sure it is well covered.

Lift the string and place it on your paper. Use the brush if you need to. It would help if you had help position it without the brush touching the paper.

Gently lift the string up and down, pull the string up, down and all around and then pull it off the paper.
Allow for drying.

TIPS:  
-  Cotton is better than plastic string.

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