Finger Painting: Spanish A1
Read a short Spanish A1 classroom art activity. Learn present-tense actions, colours, prints and a simple paint-mixing result.
Pintar con los dedos
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A Spanish A1 classroom activity follows a child making a flower with prints. The scene models likes, regular present-tense actions and a paint-mixing result that belongs to this specific drawing.
Primero pongo tres huellas rojas en el papel. Después pongo una huella amarilla en el centro. Con estas huellas hago una flor pequeña. Mi compañera Ana pinta una flor azul al lado. Miramos nuestras flores y contamos las huellas.
Luego pongo pintura azul y amarilla en un plato. Las mezclo con un dedo. Con estas dos pinturas, el color sale verde. Uso el verde para hacer hojas junto a mi flor. El verde es parte de este dibujo.
Cuando termino, miro el papel. Tiene una flor roja y amarilla, hojas verdes y puntos azules. Lavo mis manos con agua y jabón. También limpio la mesa con un paño. Guardamos los botes de pintura y dejamos secar el papel.
Ahora puedes probar una pintura con los dedos.
¿Qué color quieres usar primero?
¿Qué forma puedes hacer con una huella?
¿Quieres mezclar dos pinturas en tu propio dibujo?
About this article
What you'll learn
present-tense art actions, gustar with an infinitive, colours and print vocabulary
A Spanish A1 classroom activity follows a child making a flower with prints. The scene models likes, regular present-tense actions and a paint-mixing result that belongs to this specific drawing.
After reading
Article learning block
Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.
Phrases for training
Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.
Hoy pinto con los dedos en clase de arte
newToday I paint with my fingers in art class
Pinto is the yo form of pintar. En clase de arte gives the setting.
It helps you say what you are doing in a class.
Uso un dedo limpio para cada color
newI use a clean finger for each colour
Para expresses the intended use. Cada means each and is followed by a singular noun.
It helps you explain a simple step in an activity.
pongo tres huellas rojas en el papel
newI put three red prints on the paper
Pongo is the yo form of poner. Tres comes before the plural noun huellas.
It helps you describe a step in a picture.
Las mezclo con un dedo
newI mix them with a finger
Las refers to las pinturas. Mezclo is the yo form of mezclar.
It gives you a short way to continue a sequence of actions.
cada huella deja una forma redonda
newEach print leaves a round shape
Cada is used with a singular noun: cada huella.
It helps you describe repeated marks one by one.
Guardamos los botes de pintura
newWe put away the paint pots
Guardamos is the present form of guardar for nosotros or nosotras.
It introduces a useful we form in an everyday activity.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Prints
huellas
prints
A huella is a mark left by a finger on paper. In the plural, huellas refers to several prints.
It is the key word for the flower technique in the text.
I mix
mezclo
I mix
Mezclo is the yo form of mezclar, to mix.
It names the action that creates the green paint in this drawing.
Brush
pincel
brush
A pincel is a tool with bristles used for painting.
It helps you name the tool that this finger-painting activity does not use.
Pots
botes
paint pots
A bote is a small container. In the text, botes de pintura are the small containers for paint.
It gives you a useful word for the materials in the scene.
To dry
secar
to dry
Dejamos secar means we let the paper dry. Dejar plus an infinitive shows that one action lets another happen.
It helps you describe the final step of the activity.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Gustar with an infinitive
Me gusta pintar con los dedos
I like painting with my fingers
Me gusta plus an infinitive expresses an activity that I like. Pintar stays in the infinitive after gusta.
It gives you a natural way to say which activity you like.
A result with these paints
Con estas dos pinturas, el color sale verde
With these two paints, the colour comes out green
Con estas dos pinturas limits the result to the paints in this scene. Sale verde describes the colour that appears after mixing those two paints.
It helps you describe the result of a specific art activity.
Necesitar with an infinitive
No necesito usar un pincel
I do not need to use a brush
Necesito is the yo form of necesitar. It is followed by the infinitive usar to say what I need or do not need to do.
It gives a complete example of necesitar plus an infinitive.
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