Kindergarten - Watercolor Explorations

This is a lesson I like to do with Kindergarteners towards the beginning of the school year.  They are just learning how to use brushes and paints, so I ask them to fill the paper with color - leaving no empty white space.  While they work, there are lots of reminders to rinse their brush between colors!  The next class, when the paintings are dry, they use black markers to draw on top of them.  Some use their imagination to turn their paintings into a scene, and some just use the painting as a colorful background to their drawing.  Simple and fun!