--- title: "Nursery - Art - Literacy - Finger Painting" url: "https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-10-17-nursery-art-literacy-finger-painting" school: "Darwen St James’ C of E Primary Academy" --- # Nursery - Art - Literacy - Finger Painting ![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/news/fdcd4d3e-08fd-4ee3-9087-5a19e2c78761.jpg) 17 October 2025 ![](https://darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy.schudio.com/images/news/fdcd4d3e-08fd-4ee3-9087-5a19e2c78761.jpg) During our Art and Literacy lesson, the children explored autumnal coloured paints and learned a new technique using their fingers as their painting tool. The task focused on refined movements to develop fine motor control. The children were taught how to carefully dab one finger into the paint and then press it onto their paper, successfully creating a controlled dot or fingerprint. They worked with autumnal images that had designated white spaces, requiring them to select a colour and deliberately fill in the void using this specific finger-painting technique. While it was initially tempting for some to use their whole hand and "go wild" with the paint, the children did a brilliant job practicing this new, refined skill, demonstrating excellent self-regulation and control to create beautiful, textured autumnal pictures. [Nursery](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/tag/nursery) [Early Years Foundation Stage](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/tag/early-years-foundation-stage) [English](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/tag/english) [Art and Design](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/tag/art-and-design) [![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/imagecache/100x100c/news/Collage_2025-10-15_14_54_23.jpg)](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-10-16-year-6-history-writing-a-viking-saga) Previous ### [Year 6: History: Writing a Viking Saga](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-10-16-year-6-history-writing-a-viking-saga) [![](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/imagecache/100x100c/news/5711ca08-1502-453a-9d47-6c12150b1793.jpeg)](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-10-20-reception-art-and-design-printing) Next ### [Reception – Art and Design: Printing](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news/2025-10-20-reception-art-and-design-printing) ### Academy Life - [News](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/news) - [Events](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/events) - [Clubs](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/academy-life/basc) - [School Council](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/academy-life/school-council) - [Attendance](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/academy-life/attendance) - [Charities and Fundrasing](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/academy-life/charities-and-fundraising) - ![School Games Gold](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/partners/Gold_Logo_25-26(1).png) - ![Healthy school](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/partners/healthy_school.png) - ![Picture News](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/partners/6_Years_of_Picture_News.png) - ![AP smilestar](https://files.schudio.com/darwen-st-james-c-of-e-primary-academy/images/partners/Screenshot_2026-07-27_10.26.27.png) ##### Location St James Crescent Darwen Lancashire BB3 0EY ##### Contact Us 01254 703260 ##### Stay Connected - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Darwenstjames) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/darwenstjames/) © Copyright 2021–2026 Darwen St James’ C of E Primary Academy School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://darwenstjames.co.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)