Jackson Pollock Paintings

Jackson Pollock is famous for his famous line paintings so we tried them ourselves.  We set this up by pouring red, yellow and blue tempura paint in our paint trays.  Then each child had a large piece of white construction paper and a craft stick with a piece of yarn attached.  

 The children got to dip their yarn in the paint and then slide it along their paper.  You can see that we tried using bowls for the paints first.  We found that it was much easier to put the paint in the trays shown above.  Then children could reach all of the colors.

 We also found that getting the yarn wet before they began painting helped it absorb the paint better.