Drawing with milk at home. Unusual drawing with children: magical and simple. Now let's add music
It’s even difficult to say whether this is drawing or just an interesting experiment. Although, probably, both at the same time.
But the fact is that I had to repeat it three times in a row. Svyatoslav was very impressed with the process! His eyes periodically widened, and his mouth spread into a smile.
Therefore, I highly recommend doing this experiment with your child, especially since all the ingredients are always at hand.
So, you will need:
- milk
- several containers of diluted paint. I used regular gouache diluted with water
- A little liquid soap.
Pour milk into a wide plate:
We drip different colors and watch how the paint spreads, you can mix the colors a little with a stick
To complete the process, add a drop of liquid soap, or dip a cotton swab in the soap and place it in a plate.
And we see the magic...
And when everything was mixed, this is what happened: 
In the final spills, we lowered the paper and printed paint on it, the print also turned out interesting, but a little faded.
Our experiment was a success! Now, however, we have to hide the milk, otherwise it will all end up endlessly repeating this experiment :)
Fascinating activities include these unconventional drawing techniques or creating images using various methods. One of which – creating patterns on milk – we will look at today in our master class.
Often interesting ideas for creativity are born at the intersection of science and art, thanks to the unusual properties of substances and their reaction to each other.
This art form uses different densities and properties of liquids, with different surface tensions and the diffusion of one liquid into another and the incredible transformations and effects that result from the reaction.
What to do with your child at home?
On long winter evenings, when all the games have been replayed, the books have been re-read and all the drawings have been redrawn, mothers ask themselves the question: - What to do with their restless baby? Experiments at home can be a good alternative to traditional activities.
You can turn into a fairy for your child and awaken his curiosity and interest in creativity. Interesting and simple experiments, which can be easily and safely organized and carried out, will give an initial idea of the wonderful world of science and will arouse keen curiosity in children.
In addition, this technique is very meditative and contemplative. For an adult, it can be useful as a relaxing activity and for relieving tension.
Experiments at home
For bold creative experiments you will need very simple and safe ingredients:
- whole milk. It is important that it is not low-fat, it is better if it is homemade.
- dyes diluted in water, food or for fabric. They can be purchased at art stores or you can take the powder and dissolve it in water yourself.
- a flat plate or shallow tray;
- liquid soap or dishwashing detergent.
To begin with, pour a little milk into a plate and give the child jars of paints, from which he must randomly add several drops of paints of different colors onto the milk. The resulting drawing will already be very interesting. But that is not all. You need to drop a little liquid soap or dishwashing detergent into our container.
Each drop, falling on the surface, starts a fantastic dance of flowers.
The child will absolutely love the process itself and its unexpected results.
Watching amazing transformations is very interesting and very instructive. In addition, this amazing series of transformations can be photographed and printed with interesting abstract photographs, and the interior can be decorated with the results of joint creativity with children. There can be a lot of photographs, because the movement and transformation in the plate will continue for a long time. Having carried out such an interesting experiment, next time you can invite the child to participate in the process himself and try to form a drawing.
I thought, maybe one of these methods will captivate their child... I liked the idea with foam, let's try to draw this way. This simple design can be made using paint and balloons.
1. Inflate a regular balloon to the size of the desired print. You can use different balls for each color.
2. Prepare the paint in advance, it can be either gouache or finger paints. It is most convenient to pour the paint onto a disposable plate.
4. Then dip the ball in green paint and make a print next to the red one, then another, make as many prints as you want until you get the body of the caterpillar.
5. In order to show color mixing, you can dip a ball in blue paint and put a print on the green one you have already made.
6. To complete the composition, add eyes, legs and antennae.
Drawing in a box
But we prepared this craft for our art box “Two Palms” last year, we had a lot of fun!
We will need
- box
- paper
- ping pong balls
- paint (ordinary gouache, not very dense in structure, will do)
How to do:
1. Place a sheet of paper at the bottom of the box.
2. Place the ball in paint, one ball equals one color of paint.
3. Place the balls in the 4 corners of the box.
4. Close the box and shake or simply roll the balls around the box in a circular motion. Fun is guaranteed, the masterpiece is ready, you can open your gallery or give the masterpiece to your dad or grandma.
Drawing on shaving foam
Show your kids this wonderful drawing technique. Let's draw on shaving foam!
We will need:
- shaving foam (exactly foam, not gel)
- mixing bowl (this can be a bowl)
- paint that is easily absorbed (liquid food coloring, tempera paint or liquid gouache)
- pipette optional
- mixing stick
- landscape (porous sheet) paper
- flat wooden stick or board
We create:
1. Squeeze shaving foam into the container
2. Drop different colors of paint with a pipette
3. Stir with a stick
4. Place a sheet of paper in the foam, immersing it a little
5. Take it out, remove the excess foam with a flat board and voila, the drawing is ready!
Tactile drawing
What could be more interesting?
We will need:
- Finger paint
- bubble wrap
- cling film
- sandpaper (not very rough)
- rough cardboard (you can use an egg tray)
It's simple - tell your child about the different properties of materials, let him draw with his palms and see how the same paint applies to different surfaces, and, of course, the development of fine motor skills, where without it.
Drawing with a mixer
This idea is just the BOMB!
So you haven't drawn yet!
We will need:
- paints
- box (you can even “Two palms”)
- mixer
- a sheet of paper (many sheets)
- good mood
Musical instrument?
No, it's a drawing tool)))
We will need:
- paper
- shoe box
- rubber band for money
- paints
Carefully! Spray!
Drawing in the rain
If it's raining outside, no problem!
Let's draw!
Just put colorful drops of paint on a sheet of paper and take them out onto the balcony or into the yard.
The rain itself will draw beautiful rainbow pictures.
Marvel at the magic with your baby.
Stained glass windows made of glue
It’s very simple and fun to make bright stained glass windows from glue and food coloring.
We will need:
- white glue (PVA works great)
- food coloring (liquid)
- toothpicks
- plastic cover
- hole puncher
- threads
We create:
1. Pour glue into the lid so that the entire surface is covered
2. Ask your child to put in one drop of each color of food coloring.
3. Give your child a toothpick and ask him to mix the droplets, but just don’t get too carried away so that he doesn’t end up with a dirty brown color.
4. Let the glue dry, it may take several days to dry depending on how much glue you used
5. When the glue dries, the edges will simply begin to separate from the lid.
6. After complete drying, separate the resulting stained glass window from the lid, make a hole and hang it to play with flowers on a tree or window.
Have fun and catch colored bunnies with your baby.
Painting salt
We offer to paint the salt sculpture!
We will need:
- coarse salt
- a little water (so that the salt is not dry, but also does not spread)
- molds for playing in the sandbox
We create:
Like in a sandbox, create your own salt cake together with your baby. Then take liquid watercolor and carefully pipette the paint onto the salt sculpture. Please note that if you do this with a brush, the salt may crumble, but a pipette will not disturb the harmony of your creativity.
This is unusual and interesting activity develops creative thinking, fine motor skills, tactile sensations, logical thinking and will keep your child busy for a long time.
Family applique
Triple print applique is fun for the whole family!
Make three footprints of all your family members, maybe even a cat or dog - it'll be fun!
If the prints are of different colors, the applique will turn out to be rainbow :)
Each print must be cut out so that a small white stripe remains.
Glue the cut out pieces on top of each other and frame them!
Color bombs
We will need:
- Zip-lock bags
- corn starch
- food coloring or watercolor
- vinegar
- soda
- paper towels or napkins
We create:
1. Mix starch, vinegar and dye and fill bags one-third full with the mixture.
2. Then pour baking soda into the middle of the napkin and form it into a bomb.
3. Place a bomb in the bag and seal the bag tightly.
4. Then shake the contents well.
The bag will begin to swell and after a few minutes there will be an explosion that will paint the streets with rainbow colors.
Drawing on the sheets
What could be more fun on the lawn in summer!?
You can invent and depict a whole world
Drawing with stamps
Drawing with stamps always captivates children, but the best thing is that they can stamp with any available materials. Celery is no exception; it makes great stamps for kids :)
We draw flowers with celery; the drawing can make a great postcard for grandma on March 8th.
Drawing on milk
We create:
1. Pour milk into a flat plate.
2. Add paint.
3. Dip the stick in dishwashing liquid and dip it into the paint.
4. Hold the wand and see what happens.
5. Continue adding soap solution to different places on the milk.
Drawing with soap bubbles
We will need:
- cups (can be disposable)
- bubble
- watercolor paints
- straw for blowing
- watercolor paper
We create:
1. Pour the bubble liquid into cups.
2. Add paint.
3. Mix well and start blowing colored bubbles onto the paper.
4. We are waiting for it to dry and you can hang the work on the wall!
If your child doesn't like to draw, it just means that you haven't yet found a way that he will like. Take a look at our selection: we have found for you 10 drawing techniques that you may not have heard of before. Or heard it, but didn't try it. Try it and then tell us about the results.
Drawing on milk
Actually, this method of drawing is called Ebru and in the original it is performed not with milk, but with special water. But all the bells and whistles for this type of creativity are very expensive. We suggest you try Ebru with milk. We like absolutely everything about this technique: its cost, the beauty of its execution, and the fact that the unusual design can be preserved.
You will need:
- large tray
- milk (the fattier the better)
- paints (from Ikea are quite suitable)
- toothpick
- pipette
- dishwashing liquid (optional)
Drawing on shaving foam
This method of drawing develops creative thinking and imagination, and the process is so captivating that one day you will have to stock up on shaving foam for future use.
You will need:
- acrylic paints (or gouache)
- shaving foam
- wand
- plastic board
- ruler-triangle
Drawing with balloons
Usually, at every holiday, balloons become obligatory guests. But then time passes, and the balloons begin to deflate. Do you think they can no longer bring joy? You are wrong! You can draw with them!
You will need:
- balloon
- sheet of white paper
- pink paint
- disposable plate
- button
- beady eyes
Gather all the ingredients. Pour pink paint into a disposable bowl. Inflate (or take an already inflated) balloon and carefully lower it into the paint. Make an imprint on a piece of paper with the ball. You will get a pink circle. Dip the ball in pink paint and paint piggy ears! Place beady eyes on the paint that has not yet dried (the eyes will stick when the paint dries). Attach a button to create a nose. If the paint is already dry, use fresh paint as glue. You can, of course, not only draw a pig, whatever you like.
Drawing with yarn
You can draw using old pieces of yarn or thick threads, which are probably found in every home!
You will need:
- water washable paints
- disposable plates
- paper
- yarn (you can use thick threads or ribbons).
Drawing in grattage style
The word grattage comes from the French word gratter - to scrape, scratch. And it’s true, the drawing is not written, but scratched. This method of drawing is an excellent tool for developing imagination and shading skills.
You will need:
- thick paper
- colour pencils
- black gouache
- paraffin candle
- brush
- toothpick
Drawing using aquatype method
This technique activates and develops imaginative thinking, imagination, creativity; it is suitable even for those who do not know how to draw at all. A drawing is made on a piece of glass, plastic or plastic using watercolors, gouache, and oil paints. Maybe not a drawing, but just spots. The glass is then pressed against the paper and an imprint is left on it. To get an interesting effect, you can turn the glass, pull it, lift it step by step, by one edge or by all four at once - thanks to this, the paint will smear a little and you will get the effect of movement, wind blowing, waves. The resulting drawings can be left unchanged, or can be used as a background for the main drawing.
Painting with frozen paint
We're sure you've never painted with frozen paint before! Today is the day to discover new horizons and try this fun form of drawing.
You will need:
- shaving foam
- food colorings
- plastic cups
- accessories (sequins, small beads)
- paper or whatman paper
Drawing with soap bubbles
You will need:
- some shampoo
- 15 drops food coloring
- 1/2 cup water
- cocktail straws
Painting with salt
For this type of painting you will need a piece of cardboard, glue and salt. Dip a brush in glue and draw whatever your heart desires on dark cardboard. Kids can simply put dots on cardboard - these dots will later turn into snowflakes. We don't regret glue! Dip the brush into the glue more often and spread it thicker. Now take a handful of salt and boldly sprinkle the picture. Snowflakes can be sprinkled with finely ground salt, snowdrifts with coarse salt, different salts can be combined on spruce branches, and so on. Thus, we cover the entire cardboard with a thick layer of salt. Then we carefully tilt and shake the cardboard - the excess salt falls off the picture, leaving fluffy drawings of salt on the glue base. Magic, nothing less!
Irina Belova
Master class for teachers “Drawing with milk”
Master class for teachers: “Drawing with milk.”
Prepared by:
teacher Belova Irina Valentinovna.
Participants:
educators.
Form:
pedagogical workshop.
Purpose of the master class:
exchange of professional experience with preschool teachers on organizing work with children and parents on artistic and aesthetic education.
Tasks:
Train teachers to work in this technique.
Promote development creative imagination, artistic and aesthetic skills.
Arouse interest in fine arts.
Master class product:
making a drawing using acrylic paints, with milk.
Material:
Whole milk (cream 20% and above);
Plate;
Acrylic paints;
Glasses of water;
Wet wipe;
White paper.
Motto:
“Work for the hands is a holiday for the soul!”
Master class plan.
1. Introductory part.
From the history of drawing on milk.
2. Practical part. Drawing technology.
3. Final part. Summarizing.
4. Reflection.
I. Hello, dear teachers! Thank you for coming to the master class. What is a master class?
It's fun and interesting.
This is an opportunity to create, to make a real thing with your own hands! Children, unlike adults, love to do everything themselves, in their own way.
This is a powerful development of abilities in many areas.
At the master class you will receive information and acquire useful skills and abilities. For some, this is an opportunity to try something new and interesting. And who knows, someone will find their hobby!
A little history of drawing on milk.
This is a way of drawing on water - the Ebru technique. And very ancient. Only the birthplace of the Ebru technique came to us from Turkey, and even earlier (presumably) originated in ancient India, then passed to the Persians - they brought the Ebru technique to the Ottoman Empire. For ebru, a special solution is used: a mixture of water with juice (nectar) of the Turkish endemic plant Hevena. This component gives the water additional stickiness. The paints used for the ebru technique are insoluble and spread over the surface of the water. (You can use a mixture of paint and linseed oil). Traditionally, for the Ebru technique, the tools - a kind of "brushes" - are made from rosewood and horsehair. With these “brushes” the artist works with an insoluble film of paints - mixes colors, stretches, twists, etc. As a result of this painting, the paint on water acquires a pattern similar to marble (another name for the Ebru technique is Turkish marbling). Also, using the same paints, additional drawings are applied on top of the marble background with the same tools - or only the background is preserved.
You can try to reproduce some semblance of painting on water using the ebru technique at home using milk and acrylic paints.
What are the benefits of drawing with milk?
Every child who draws with milk has a unique opportunity to express their hidden talents, immerse themselves in a world of limitless imagination, in a world of beauty and goodness.
Drawing on milk is a very interesting technique that is sure to please children and their parents, and even the most restless children, who are quite difficult to interest in something for older ones, such drawings are no less useful - if you dip paper in milk and carefully pull it out, then it will turn out to be a real work. This fascinating drawing technique will captivate not only children, but also adults - this kind of creativity can be mastered by everyone, and doing it is a real pleasure. It also has bright colors, the magic of transforming colors into funny patterns on milk. And the development of children's imagination.
Relatively simple techniques for making a drawing on milk make this direction of creativity unusually attractive.
Today I will introduce you to the technique of drawing with milk.
II. Practical work.
I would like to start practical work with the words:
The cow sends greetings to you all!
Drink milk, people,
Eat milk people
And draw too.
You will be healthy!
There is a saying, “Written with a pitchfork,” which means something fleeting and elusive. So how can we get such beautiful drawings from this fleeting and elusive thing?
(showing works in this technique)
These are the works of parents made at the “Big Break” events. The works are individual, not similar to each other, with different colors.
And today we will learn how to paint with milk and master the method of marbling with milk.
So, let's start in order:
(oriental music starts)
For drawing, we need full-fat milk, or better yet, cream. Water for washing brushes and paint. I took acrylic gouache, it gives relatively bright, but at the same time pastel shades and almost does not mix with milk.
To paint with gouache on milk, you just need to dip the brush with paint into the milk and wait until the paint forms a spot of the required diameter around the brush.
Now, with a wand in the air, repeat after me the wave-like movements vertically, now the wave-like movements horizontally, or maybe you want to make movements in a circular spiral, but someone wants to bring chaos into your creation.
Gently meditate on milk. Don’t think about the result, let yourself go on a personal flight of fancy, surrender to the charm of the process itself!
But the most amazing thing about this drawing is the transfer to paper. Porous is best watercolor paper, it perfectly absorbs paint, taking all of it from the milk so that you can then paint on it again.
You just need to place the sheet on top of the milk for 4-5 seconds. Grasp the edges of the paper and drag it smoothly over the edge of the tray to remove excess liquid. It turns out so beautiful that you can even hang it on the wall! The drawing dries from 30 minutes to an hour.
But, nevertheless, this will also be drawing on water, and the result can turn out to be very beautiful and original. And most importantly - handmade and unique.
(showing the works of participants)
(Music ends)
Conclusion: What does the use of non-traditional drawing techniques, in this case the technique of drawing on milk, give me in my work?
The unusual nature of drawing helps to develop the cognitive activity of preschoolers, the desire to experiment, and most importantly, correct their mental processes, because drawing with milk is a meditation that captivates, fascinates, calms, and for a child, the important thing is the result that causes him joy, amazement, astonishment.
Therefore, I believe that for children, drawing with milk is an excellent tool for developing imagination, motor skills, and creativity.
Reflection.
Dear teachers! I ask you to perform reflection using the “Emotional Letter” method. To do this, I suggest you choose from the proposed emotions a pictogram that matches your mood in our master class and explain your choice. (Pictograms are offered: cheerful, sad, surprised, etc., those present choose a pictogram.)
Thank you for your cooperation! I wish you creative success!
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