Neptune Painting for Kids is perfect for exploring visual arts and fine motor skills with your little learners. Your preschoolers and kindergartners are sure to love this open-ended ball painting experience. Don’t forget to add this quick and easy planet craft to your next space preschool theme!
This week we’re exploring Giant Planets and we’re having a blast making our very own solar system! We started with a Paper Plate Sun Painting for Kids and each day we’ve been adding a new planet. Today we’re learning all about Neptune with this Neptune Painting for Kids!
Neptune is an ice giant with swirling storms. It has 14 moons and 6 rings. The planet is blue.
Did you know that sometimes Pluto is closer to the sun (and us) than Neptune is? How cool is that? The little guy definitely thought it was! That’s just one of the many fun facts we learned today as we explored Neptune. Learn even more cool stuff about Neptune here!
And while we’re on the subject, baby girl is loving all of this month’s fun planet-themed songs:
Ring around the planets,
Jupiter and Neptune,
Uranus and Saturn,
They all have rings!
This has been such a wonderful homeschool week! We’ve just about wrapped up all eight planets and learned about dwarf planet Pluto too!
In the meantime, the little guy and baby girl are all kinds of excited to start Exploring Space next week with lessons about gravity and rocket ships. Did I mention that he asked for a telescope?
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I’m willing to bet that your little kids will love this ball painting process art activity. I know mine definitely did!
Neptune Painting for Kids
What you’ll need
- Inspiration Photo
- Small Ball
- Paper
- Scissors
- Paint (Blue, White)
- Pan or Box
Here’s how to do it
Set Up
- Set out Inspiration Photo and additional supplies.
Prompts
- What colors will you squirt on your paper?
- What happens when you roll a ball through the paint?
- How does the ball roll differently when you put your paper planet in different types of pans, e.g., circle cake pan, rectangle cake pan, box?
- Can you cut a circle shape for Neptune from paper?
Observe
- Did the child use his or her wrists to rotate the pan or box side-to-side and up and down?
- How did the child describe what was happening with the ball and paint?
We ended up using paper plates for this activity. I’m still not exactly sure how that happened. The little guy likes to grab things from the bins I have filled with left-overs from our curriculum kits.
Either way, I love how these quick and easy planet crafts turned out! Both kiddos put a tray underneath their paper plates and rotated the tray in different directions while observing how the ball rolled.
The little guy and baby girl had lots of fun experimenting with basic physics concepts while making Neptune process art.
And of course, ball painting couldn’t have been a more perfect way to demonstrate Neptune’s swirling clouds and strong winds.
Don’t forget to check back if you’re interested in seeing what we’re up to next week with our space & sky theme from Experience Early Learning (formerly Mother Goose Time).
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As an Experience Early Learning Blog Ambassador, I receive the Experience Early Learning Preschool curriculum in exchange for my honest and authentic stories resulting from our personal experiences. As always, my opinions on awesome stuff for little kids are 100% my own. Keep in mind that all preschoolers do things in their own time and on their own terms. What one is ready for, another might not be. Please use your best mama judgement when planning activities for your little kids. #preschool #homeschool #mgtblogger
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