Paint Center  

Children can explore and manipulate a variety of painting tools and supplies to create their artwork.  Children can choose to take their work home, display it on the classroom walls or include it in their assessment portfolio. All tools are properly labeled with a picture and print to enable children to be responsible for the supplies they use.

Materials & Resources

Literacy Support

Dramatic Play Props:

Paint smocks, hat (beret) and paint pallet 

Literacy skills-role-play

Literacy Props: 

Easel with blank paper (not just for painting),

Painting books Pablo Picasso by: Linda Lowery Blank books

Learns to express emotions,

Concept of books- illustrate their own book,

Literacy skills- role-play/story telling- being an artist

Environmental Print:

Posters displaying painters

Children’s own art work with titles, descriptions, or other print written on them

Emergent Reading

Functional use of print

Alphabet recognition

Phonemic awareness

Other Print: 

Painting magazines:

Paintworks

Create interest in reading

Model reading a variety of texts

Book Examples: 

Bibliographies:

Vincent Van Gogh by: Jan Greenberg

The Boy Who Loved To Draw: Benjamin West by: Barbra Brenner 

Informational:

Painters of the Caves by: Patricia Lauber The Painter’s Eye: Learning to Look at Contemporary American Art by: Jan Greenberg

Story Books:

A Picnic With Monet by: Julie Mergerg

Children’s Books:

Color Dance by Ann Jonas

My Many Colored Days By Dr. Suess

Purple, Green, and Yellow by Robert M. Munsch

Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh

In the Garden with Van Gogh by Julie Merberg

Magical Day with Matisse by Julie Merberg

Sunday with Seurat by Julie Merberg

Sharing with Renoir by Julie Merberg

Vincent Van Gogh Sunflowers and Swirly Stars by Joan Holub

Oral Language- vocabulary

Concepts of print- parts of a book Literacy skills- role-play/story telling, understanding plot, character, and setting, problem solving, and critical thinking Functional use of print

Alphabet recognition

Phonemic awareness