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I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More Color Identification Game

Colleen Beck OTR/L

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by Colleen Beck OTR/L
May 7, 2015

Preschool Book Club is back again, this time with a craft activity and game based on the book, “I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!”. We’ve created a body part identification book activity for this book before, and were excited to read an play the book again! This time our activity addressed colors and body parts, and was it ever fun!

This is a creative art idea that you’ll want to explore. Use more of the creative painting ideas we have here on the website to identify body parts, too.

Painted birdhouses craft and Body Part, Color Identification Game based on the book, "I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!"

Body Part Game and Craft

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I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!
by Karen Beaumont is a colorful and exciting book. A creative little boy paints first his house, walls, and ceiling and then when his mama objects to that, decides to paint his body. My kids LOVE the rhyming nature of this book. As we read the book (again and again!) they guessed the body parts that the little boy painted.

We decided to paint birdhouses like the boy paints his house. Out birdhouses became colorful works of art with colors mixing and spinning together. This was such a fun and engaging craft for the kids. We started with a wooden birdhouse that we received from www.craftprojectideas.com. Use acrylic paints (also from craftprojectideas!) to paint the birdhouses.

I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More Book Activity

Once the paint dried, we created a game based on the book. We used colored craft sticks to create color identification and body part identification game. Write the names of body parts on the colored craft sticks.

Now play the game! To start, we had each child choose 5 colored craft sticks. They closed their eyes and to pick the colors. We read the book again and as we saw colors in the story or heard body parts, the kids could place their colored craft sticks into the birdhouses. This was such a fun way to combine art and a learning game.

After we played our I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! game a feeeew times, we gave our colorful birdhouses to the birds! They are now decorating the trees around our house. we are waiting to see if any birds decide they want to live in a colorfully painted house!