Let the children draw pictures using wax candles or wax blocks on finger paint or some kind of thick paper. Then, let the children use water paints to paint over their picture. The paint won't adhere to the wax and will make a neat open-ended art project. Paper Bag Whales Have children stuff small paper bags with crumpled sheets of newspaper. Tie the tops of bags to make the tail.
Children then can paint the bags grey.
Allow to dry. Water shapes can be cut from blue paper to make spouts of water coming from whale's blowhole. Watermelon dark green paper light green paper red paper black paint Cut a large watermelon shape out of dark green, cut one slightly smaller out of light green, and a still smaller red one. Glue these to resemble a slice of watermelon. Use black thumb prints on red part to represent seeds or use blacks circles from a hole punch and glue them on.