Painting and mark-making

[pongie]

Hello everyone
Finally getting to the end of my NVQ2-taken a bit longer to complete but that's a whole new thread in itself! Anyway, I need to do a creative observation which includes some sort of mark making and am stuck for ideas. Our theme in class at the moment is wind-up toys so was thinking of asking the children to design/paint their own toy but unsure how to incorporate mark making into this.
Any help/tips are much appreciated.
Thankyou

[sian scott]

get them to write their name on their own piece of work either free hand or over the top of yours

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi and welcome to the site

I'd be tempted to source a few wind up toys that are washable, then have trays of paint for them to move through/be dipped in - then making tracks and marks. Or maybe squirt lines of ready mix paint onto a large sheet of paper allowing the toys to move over them at will or with children's/adult direction..

Start and finish lines?

I'm not sure what age group you are with but this would look at lines - time, start and finishing points, where to put things to begin mark making, how a mark is formed eg: by contact, direction and language - forwards, backwards, up, down, curve, cursive, straight .. clacker, clatter, jiggle and fine motor - pincer grip & twist maybe in how 'to wind ..

There is an ongoing thread that looks at ideas for mark making activities - Mark making activities please add on anything else you come across xx and it's also something that's looked at differently in other threads if you'd like to search the forums - Search page

Enjoy Silkysteps

[pongie]

Thankyou for your advice :)