Avocado Pit Ball Painting for Kids

Encourage physical science and fine motor skills with this Avocado Pit Ball Painting for Kids. It’s perfect for your next fruit, orchard, or tree preschool theme. You’re definitely not going to want to miss this engaging and hands-on painting for kids activity!

This week, we’re learning about Skins & Shells, which means topics such as Walnut, Chestnut, Avocado, Banana, and Peach. Our Teacher Guide explained that children use their critical thinking skills by exploring how to eat food that is inside a shell, a peel, or a skin.

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A huge thanks to Experience Early Learning (formerly Mother Goose Time) for providing us with their Experience Preschool curriculum for free in exchange for sharing our honest and authentic stories resulting from our personal experiences. It’s been such a huge blessing to us! As always, my opinions on awesome stuff for little kids are 100% my own.

What colors might you find in an avocado? An avocado has dark green skin on the outside then lighter green and sometimes yellowish green on the inside. We used brown, light green and yellow for our avocado pit process art.

Both the little guy and baby girl had a blast painting with the bark as well as the rubber balls. We never skip an opportunity to paint. After all, art is one of our absolute most favorite ways to explore the world around us.

Ball Painting for Kids

What you’ll need

Inspiration Photo
Paper
Rubber Ball
Paint
Scissors
Glue
Nature Item: Bark

Here’s how to do it

Set Up

Set out Inspiration Photo and additional supplies.

Prompts

What do you notice about the photo?
What shape is an avocado? Will you cut your paper into that shape?
How can you paint with the avocado “pit” (rubber ball)?
What’s inside the avocado? Will you make a pit?

Observe

Does the child explore rolling the rubber ball in paint?
Does she ask for help when using the rubber ball?

If you’ve been around for a while, then you know that we’ve done ball painting a lot over the years. It’s definitely a favorite that we keep coming back to over and over again, so be sure to check out these quick and easy painting ideas for kids too!

Don’t forget to check back if you’re interested in seeing what we’re up to next week with our Orchard Harvest theme from Experience Preschool!