Blow Paint Turkeys 2nd and 3rd Grade

My daughters have been really into blowing paint drips to create beautiful paintings lately. Friday I came up with a fun idea to make turkeys with blow paint feathers.

We started with construction paper to make the turkey and used watered down tempera for the drippy paint. The students could decorate the backgrounds if they finished early. This was a one day project.

Fifth grade is making drippy paint creatures with cool colors, I will post more later. They are turning out quite fabulous like this Eagle landing on a branch!!

Drippy Monsters

2nd grade is learning about blending colors and the analogous colors on the color wheel. We used orange and yellow, and blue and green paint to create these drip monsters. Students used a straw to blow the paint to create the body, arms, and legs of their monster.

Then they used construction paper to make the face, and add details. I asked them to give their monsters personality. They were also told not to copy anyone, since they have a hard time with that sometimes. We still ended up with quite a few “artist” monsters!! I couldn’t say no to that!! Oh and of course I made sure that each student gave their monster an iris, pupil, and reflection of light in each eye!