Description
Participants will create their own planet with a stencil and sponge paint
Number of Participants
For any number of participants
Space Considerations
An indoor space with room for children and their caregivers to do a craft
Competencies
- Artistic expression
- Creative and imaginative thinking
- Development of fine motor skills
- Eye-hand coordination
- Spatial relationships
Materials
- Sponge Paint Planet Template
- Black cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors (adult use only)
- Paint
- Small pieces of sponge
- Tactile stickers or items (optional)
- Newspaper or table covering
- Book display titles related to planets (for participants to reference)
Preparation
- Prepare the room for a program that uses glue or paint
- Print out Sponge Paint Planet Templates
Implementation
- Distribute Sponge Paint Planet Templates
- Distribute materials
Instructions
1. Fold Sponge Paint Planet Template vertically in half
2. Cut the half-circle out. The remaining sheet is your stencil
3. Unfold the stencil and place it over black paper
4. Hold the stencil in place while using a sponge to apply paint over the black circle, especially the borders
5. When finished, remove the stencil and decorate the rest of the sheet as you like
Accessibility Considerations
- Provide pre-cut stencils for planets
- Encourage participants to help each other: one can hold the stencil in place while the other applies paint
- Use various tactile craft supplies to add to sponge painting, such as
- small foam stars
- star stickers
Book Suggestions
Hush, Little Rocket by Mo O’Hara and Alexandra Cook
Little Moar and the Moon by Roselynn Akulukjuk and Jazmine Gubbe
Oolichan Moon by Samantha Beynon and Lucy Trimble
Pluto! Not a Planet? Not a Problem! by Stacy McAnulty and Stevie Lewis
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