Painting tracks with toy cars

Children can create tracks, trails and prints by putting a variety of toys through paint and then putting onto paper.  We usually start of with toy cars being driven through the paint and across the paper to create tyre tracks, but children can experiment with other (washable) toys, for example animal and doll footprints.

Equipment required

• Paint
• Paper
• Toy cars (washable)

What do we do?

• Push the toy car through the paint
• Drive the toy car across the paper

What are we learning?

• Colours and colour mixing
• Patterns
• Fine motor skills

Links to Te Whaariki

• Strand 4 - Communication.  Goal 4 - Children experience an environment where they discover and develop different ways to be creative and expressive.