Action Painting

I lead a project with a family focusing in action art. First we filled water balloons with paint. Then we all helped with carrying supplies out in the nature by the River; a huge thick rolled up paper, paints in containers with supplies and fly swatters. After setting up the paper on the grass, the kids took turns throwing water balloons with paint in them at the paper. Then the whole family, mother, her son and his friend, and I took turns dipping the swatters in trays of paint and whacking the paper.  We also dipped ferns and sticks in paint and hit the paper with it and make prints with them.  The focus of the project was process, not product. It was about the result of art making through movement like Jackson Pollock did with his famous paintings.