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Squirt Gun Painting: This is an Exciting Art Project for Kids

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Squirt gun painting is an exciting way to combine process art with a fine motor activity.

Squirt gun painting is a fun fine motor, hand strengthening, and process art activity for preschool and pre-k. Learn how to do this fun open-ended art project with your kids today. Are you for how to improve hand strength? Squeezing the water gun builds hand strength. This creative art activity is perfect for spring, summer, and fall in school or at home.

Why is Squirt Gun Painting a Great Activity for Kids?

Sometimes the kids who need to develop fine motor skills are the same kids who avoid fine motor activities like the plague.  But, sometimes you can find an activity that is extremely engaging for these kids.  Squirt gun painting is one of those extremely engaging activities.

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Squirt gun painting is a fun fine motor, hand strengthening, and process art activity for preschool and pre-k. Learn how to do this fun open-ended art project with your kids today. Are you for how to improve hand strength? Squeezing the water gun builds hand strength. This creative art activity is perfect for spring, summer, and fall in school or at home.

  • Squirt guns (I don’t love using “guns” with young kids.  I found some fun sea creature squirt guns that I used)
  • Tempera paint
  • Squeeze bottles
  • Paper

Where to Set this Up

This is a fun and messy activity.  It is a perfect outside activity.  We happened to have a large piece of cardboard that we attached to a fence and then taped our paper to the cardboard.  If you are brave enough to squirt gun paint inside, be sure to protect nearby walls, floors, etc. with plastic.

Squirt gun painting is a fun fine motor, hand strengthening, and process art activity for preschool and pre-k. Learn how to do this fun open-ended art project with your kids today. Are you for how to improve hand strength? Squeezing the water gun builds hand strength. This creative art activity is perfect for spring, summer, and fall in school or at home.

Squirt Gun Painting Instructions

Begin by adding a few squeezes of tempera paint to a plastic squeeze bottle.  Dilute the paint by adding water to the squeeze bottle.  Shake it up to mix it all up.  You might have to play around with the consistency.  You want enough paint in the mixture to create a vibrant design, but you want it to be thin enough to flow throw the squirt gun properly.

Next, fill a squirt gun (or shark squirter…ha) with the paint mixture.

Finally, kids can spray the paint onto paper.

Squirt gun painting is a fun fine motor, hand strengthening, and process art activity for preschool and pre-k. Learn how to do this fun open-ended art project with your kids today. Are you for how to improve hand strength? Squeezing the water gun builds hand strength. This creative art activity is perfect for spring, summer, and fall in school or at home.

Squirt gun painting is a fun fine motor, hand strengthening, and process art activity for preschool and pre-k. Learn how to do this fun open-ended art project with your kids today. Are you for how to improve hand strength? Squeezing the water gun builds hand strength. This creative art activity is perfect for spring, summer, and fall in school or at home.

Note: If you are painting outside, be careful when you remove the paper from the fence, easel, or cardboard.  Don’t let the wind blow the wet side of the paper on you.  The first time I tried removing a paper, I had an arm and sleeve covered with paint.

Squirt gun painting is a fun fine motor, hand strengthening, and process art activity for preschool and pre-k. Learn how to do this fun open-ended art project with your kids today. Are you for how to improve hand strength? Squeezing the water gun builds hand strength. This creative art activity is perfect for spring, summer, and fall in school or at home.

Experiments and Extensions

Here are some ideas for experimenting with squirt gun painting.

  • Try different types of paint or different concentrations of paint solutions.  What do you notice?
  • What happens when colors mix on the paper?
  • Try standing at different distances from the paper.  Do you notice a difference in the paint?
  • Hold the water gun at different angles.  Do you notice a difference?
  • What do you notice about the paint when it hits the paper?  Why do you think that it runs down?  What happens when you turn the painting?

Squirt gun painting is a fun fine motor, hand strengthening, and process art activity for preschool and pre-k. Learn how to do this fun open-ended art project with your kids today. Are you for how to improve hand strength? Squeezing the water gun builds hand strength. This creative art activity is perfect for spring, summer, and fall in school or at home.

You can see that squirt gun painting is not only a fun process art activity for your preschool kids,  It is also a great way to work on hand strength and even do a little bit of scientific experimentation.

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