🚗 FUN Rainbow Painting with Cars Activities for Kids

You will love this outrageously fun painting with cars activity where kids will make a cheery rainbow painting using hotwheel vehicles. This rainbow painting for kids is a silly rainbow painting ideas that your kids will LOVE! Use this for a rainbow theme, car theme, spring theme, or just a fun play ativity with kids. Try this car activities for kids with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students.

Painting with Cars

Young children’s job is to PLAY! This Rainbow Painting project is such a fun process art project for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students. Painting with cars is a hands-on way for kids to explore color for kids, rainbow themes, and kids rainbow painting play at the same time. Use this This rainbow painting art project would be fun on its own or as part of a spring theme, or March St Patricks Day theme, or a color theme in April or May.

Rainbow Painting

When setting up this activity make sure you do it on a washable surface or cover your table because most kids will get really into this activity and the cars could end up driving crazy all over.

All you need are a few simple materials:

– paper (or paper roll)

– washable paint

– hot wheel cars (or similar)

Rainbow painting for Kids

On your covered surface put a blob of each rainbow colored paint down the side of a large white paper. Then we had one car per color blob.

Rainbow Painting Ideas

Now it’s time for the fun part. Kids will drive over the paint and over the paper. For our activity we were making rainbows for a Spring theme for St. Patrick’s Day activity, but this fun car activity is perfect for a transporation theme, rainbow theme, car theme, or just a fun play day activity.

You could make a very interesting picture by encouraging kids to drive around on the paper any way they want to.

Car activities for kids

My preschooler thought this activity was GREAT! She loved the unique way of painting , the texture, seeing the unique track patterns she made and creating her own unique rainbow.

Car Craft for Kids

Big brother and sister were both eager to get their hands on some cars to paint too.

Extension Ideas:

Use various different types of vehicles to get different tire tracks. Have children try to match the vehicle to the tire tracks (a fun CSI kind of detective activity)
Write letters, numbers, or sight words on the piece of paper. Then tell your child to drive the blue hotwheel to the letter A (or word “is”, number 5). This is great for reinforcing lots of concepts while making a fun, colorful project too!

Painting with cars preschool

Ever kid should have the chance to paint in a fun way like this!

Car Track Painting

This is such an EPIC way for kids to get to paint. They will love the fun texture and process of painting. Plus when you are done, simple give your cars a “car wash” for a quick clean-up.

Cars Activities for Preschoolers

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Make a work of art with this outrageously fun painting with cars activity
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Roadtrip Worksheets for learning a variety of skills
Cars Filefolder punctuation games (1st-2nd Grade)

Transportation Printables

Looking for more fun, free transportation printables to help kids learn a variety of skills with a fun transporation theme? You will love these transportation free printables:

Construction Worksheets – looking for another huge pack with tons of activities to help teach your kindergartner? You will love this huge construction theme!
Dump Truck Counting Mat – Count to 20 activity that uses foil or playdough as a hands on manipulative.
Help kid spractice a variety of skills with this HUGE pack of Transportation Worksheets
Transportation Kindergarten Word Families Sliders – help kids improve reading skills with this fun transportation themed learning activity
Tools matching upper and lowercase letters game printable activity
Free printable preschool worksheets tracing letters – practice handwriting while tracing letters with this fun transportation theme printable
Preschool Construction Theme Printables to practice a variety of math and literacy skills with a no prep activity for early learners.
Transportation Playdough Mats – Kids will have fun recreating vehicles while strengthening hands using play dough.
School Bus Alphabet Matching – practice matter upper and lowerase letters with a fun back to school theme.
Check out these transportation activities for preschool
Transportation Pom Pom Activity Sheets – work on one to one correspondence with this fun hands-on transportation activity
Make some artwork as you try this silly painting with cars activity for kids
Practicing counting to 100 with this number train printable
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Airplane cvc words worksheets to complete with do a dot markers
Crazy Roads Kindergarten Sight Words Game or the pre-k sight words version or first grade sight words games edition
Practice sight words with this fun, Train themed sightwordgame