Monster Painting Activity

In this lesson, Kindergarten students learn about primary and secondary colors. To begin, the teacher fills a cookie sheet with shaving cream and adds a fair amount of two different primary colors of paint on top of that. Students swirl the two colors together to form a secondary color, but still being able to see both primary colors as well. After that, students take their 12x16 piece of white paper and place it on top of the shaving cream and gently press downwards. Then, students lift the paper off the shaving cream and scrap off the excess shaving cream with a ruler. 

The next step is to set it aside to dry. After the paper has dried, students cut a monster of their choice out of the design they created on the paper. Students then use other paper such as construction paper to cut out eyes and a mouth for their monster. To finish the monster activity, students are required to give their monster a name and also use 3 adjectives to describe their monster. I named my monster "Eye". 

Extension activity: Students could use this activity in English class! They could write a poem or even a short story about their monster.