To encourage the students the freedom to express themselves in their painting, we started by using feet to paint the background. Outside the classroom on a big tarpoline I sent up ice cream containers with paint. The limited palette contained dark green, light green and yellow. The students stepped into the paint and patted it on their cardboard. They had great fun slipping and sliding. As one student found, they had to use only one foot, because as some as she put two feet on the wet painting she also used her rear end to spread the paint. Buckets of water were also on hand to wash feet. Two weeks later I have still got paint around my toe nails (no it is not from the lack of washing). Of course PAINT SHIRTS are essential.
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