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Rhythm Painting
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In this activity, early learners create paintings by making music and rhythm. Learners place paper in cans, add paint-soaked beans (or pebbles) and put the tops on.

Salt Painting
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In this art meets chemistry activity, early learners discover the almost magical absorbent properties of salt while creating ethereal watercolor paintings.

Roller Ball Painting
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This is an activity in which learners explore the effects of gravity, motion and momentum while creating art.

Ice Cube Painting
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In this activity, learners "draw" with frozen tempera paint. The ice cubes are prepared the day before by placing watered down tempera paint and popsicle sticks in ice cube trays.

Fun with Shapes
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In this activity, early learners combine pre-cut recognizable shapes and their own abstract ideas to make representational pictures (e.g. houses, trees, shoes).

Tie Dye Painting
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This is an activity exploring color and color mixing.

Rainbow Glasses
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In this activity, learners explore light, color and rainbows by making their own rainbow glasses.

Shadow Puppets
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In this activity, learners explore color, light and shadow by creating their own puppets to hold in front of a light source.

Make Your Own Butterfly
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In this activity (on the left side of page 5, continued on the right side of page 4 of the PDF), learners make models of colorful butterflies.

Resistance is Useful
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Learners write or draw with white crayon on white paper. They look and feel to detect their marks on the paper. Then, learners paint over their paper with watercolor paint.

Good Vibrations
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In this activity, learners experiment with their voices and noisemakers to understand the connections between vibrations and the sounds created by those vibrations.

Odors Aloft
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Learners smell balloons filled with different scents to guess what's inside. From this, they infer the presence and motion of scented molecules.