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Introduction
• Key vocabulary: paint, brush, water, cleaning
• Listen all around: Cat invites the listeners to guess the sounds
• Identify Individual sounds: paintbrush splashes, paint squelches, cleaning brushes in a jam jar
• Cat invites the listeners to imagine that they are painting with their ‘magic paintbrushes’.

Song: ‘Did you ever see a paintbrush?’ (tune - ‘Did you ever see a lassie?’
Did you ever see a paintbrush, a paintbrush, a paintbrush?
Did you ever see a paintbrush that paints things like this?
It paints this way, that way, this way, that way
Did you ever see a paintbrush that paints things like this?
Did you ever see a paintbrush, a paintbrush, a paintbrush?
Did you ever see a paintbrush that paints things like this?
It paints upwards, downwards, upwards downwards,
Did you ever see a paintbrush that paints things like this?
(Repeat)
• Children can listen the first time and then join in with the actions when the rhyme is repeated

Story time: The magic paintbrush
Once upon a painting time…
If possible, to help focus the children’s attention, use props such as paints, brushes, toys and puppets to represent the characters; cat; ball; dog; a doll. These resources can be used to help sequence the story on subsequent retelling.

Final rhyme: ‘Paint is on my brush’
Paint is on my brush
Paint is on my brush
Up and down, up and down
Paint is on my brush.
I can paint a cat
I can paint a ball
Up and down, up and down
I can paint them all.
Paint is on my brush
Paint is on my brush
Round and round, round and round
Paint is on my brush.
I can paint a dog
I can paint a doll
Round and round, round and round
I can paint them all.
• Encourage the children to mime along with the actions.

Follow-up ideas
• Explore creativity supporting early letter formation and mark making
• ‘Funky fingers’ type activities ‘drawing’ circles and lines in the air using large scale movements, clockwise / anti-clockwise, up and down (to support early letter formation)
• Mark making skills, magic painting
• Painting with your ‘magic brush’
• Good for positional language up, down, side to side, round and round, zigzag, etc
• Recap ‘Did you ever see a paintbrush’ song (with actions)
• ‘If I had a magic paintbrush I would paint…’

Extension - moving into writing
• Use magic paintbrush movements to describe the three main handwriting movements: swooping round ©; drawing down and flicking up (l); brush down, flick up ®
• Choose appropriate music and make a sequence of the movements, doing them first from the shoulder, with the whole arm, and then from the elbow, with a finger in the air
• Help children get used to the three basic movements, so they can do them fluently in the correct direction
• Painting and colour mixing: painting Chinese characters / Chinese calligraphy
• Look at writing in other languages: Bengali; Urdu; Arabic

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