Brush Painting for special needs kids

Brush Painting and Roller Painting

Like hand painting, brush painting offers endless possibilities. Also like hand painting, it is an activity that can be done very regularly as students rarely tire of it.

Brush painting and roller painting can be done on a range of surfaces but paper is the easiest. Sheets of paper should be large as small sheets limit creativity. Children often paint and finish pictures quickly. Encourage students to complete a work but also have plenty of paper on hand to encourage further exploration of the materials.

Brush and roller painting can be done on tables or easels - try both. Easels may be preferable because they allow students to stand back to view their work easily, but this may not be the case for all students.

Here's a list of some variations of brush painting:

Use small brushes
Large brushes
Limited colours i.e. primaries, dark colours, light colours
White paint is very good to have on hand because of the wonderful way it changes the tone of other colours
Encourage spot, dots, lines, circles etc.

Variations of roller painting:

small and large rollers
limited colours
making lines and patterns using different colours
experiment with rolling colours over other colours, criss-crossing them etc
white paint on black paper
2 colours on a roller, one on each side and roll

Here are some uniquely created samples of brush painting
and roller painting

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