Paint and Colours - Art and Craft Grade 1 Revision Notes

• Making Improvised Brushes.
  • What is a brush?
  • Improvising a brush using locally available materials.

Making Improvised Brushes.

What is a brush?

• A brush is a tool used to pick and apply paint on a surface. And we can improvise a brush with locally available materials.
  Identifying and collecting tools and materials for making a brush.
• Divide the Learners into groups of four
• Guide Learners to collect materials they can use to make a brush
• Materials used to make a brush are; piece of old cloth,sponge,sisal,fibre,palm fibre, coconut fibre, feathers and green sticks depending on the ones available near the school.

Improvising a brush using locally available materials.

• Demonstrate to Learners how to prepare the materials for improvising a brush in steps
  
  1. First cut the green sticks to an average size of a pencil
  2. Cut to size of your choice material for the bristles.The material here can be a sponge,old cloth,sisal fbre,palm fibre, coconut fibre or feather.
  3. Once you have the right size of bristles tie it to the chopped side of the green stick using a string or a thin wire.
  4. Make several brushes from the different materials which you can test to see which produces the best paint job.
  5. Guide Learners to each make a brush from the materials of their choice.
  6. Let Learners display their brushes and talk about them.