Holton Rower Pour Paint - grade 2/3

I have been terrible at updating this past week. With the warm weather finally here, I find I can't force myself to sit at my computer and upload/edit my photos. I am going to make an effort though!

This is a project I did about a week ago. This was my second time doing a Holton Rower inspired pour paint project (see my first try here .) This is one of those projects that just seems to turn out amazingly, no matter what age. This time, I did it with grade 2 and 3.  As with before, we used drywall pucks, but this time, I tried using some Styrofoam balls in place of cubes (I had them leftover from when we made our paper mache hand puppets.)

This project really doesn't require a lot in order to work. I had several leftover containers of acrylic paint (the small sized containers from the dollar store.) Each kid was allowed to use whatever colors they wanted, however many they wanted. They could cover the entire puck, or leave some showing. The only real rule was that they could only take one color at a time (to prevent kids hording colors at their desk.)

This time, I also let them add sparkles to the top. I really feel like this was the extra pizazz that was missing last time! Both the boys and the girls had fun shaking sparkles on, and they stayed on really well after it dried.

Clean up for this project is next to none. We tossed the old plates after they were dry and that was really it! Definitely could be done with kids as young as kindergarten, and I can't think of an upper grade that wouldn't enjoy this.

Holton Rower Paint Pour art!

I am SO excited to post about this that I am not even waiting until they are dry.

Today, I had 15 kids away for cross country. I still had 18 kids there, but it was great because I was able to do an art activity that I normally wouldn't take on.

Inspired by Holton Rower, we did our own mini paint pour art projects!
I've seen re-do's of this project floating around the internet, but much of what I did was based on the supplies that I had available to me at the time.

A few weeks ago, my husband brought home 20 identical circles of drywall that he cut out of a ceiling when he was installing pot lights. These became the base for our Holton Rower projects. On top of the circle, I glued a styrofoam cube that I cut out from a large sheet of styrofoam.

We talked about colors representing emotions - what colors could you use to represent certain emotions. We talked about what red, purple, yellow would represent, etc. Then, we broke out about 40 colors of acrylic paint (50 cents a bottle!) and started POURING!

The results were just incredible.

In about a week, once they are totally dry, we will take them off of the pie plates (not sure what will happen to the paint around it - will it harden?) Maybe we can slice it off with an exacto knife.

These were done with grade 5/6 students, in about an hour.

I'm soooooooooooo excited about these!!