A variety of ways your child can express their creativity with paint.
Straw Painting
Children of any age will enjoy this art discovery.
Aim your straw at the paint and BLOW!
This is a perfect classroom or scout project.
Maneuver the paint to go in any direction, by moving your straw.
You'll need :
Straws
Poster or tempera paint
Paper
Place drops of paint onto the paper, and blow!
Remind children to take a break, to avoid dizziness.
Combine with a Ping Pong ball blowing game, and you have a science lesson that's really FUN!
Marble Painting
Marbles, paint and some "Rock and Roll" are used to create a beautiful picture, worthy of any refrigerator gallery.
You'll need :
Poster or tempera paint
paper
container
Use Any of these for your painting container: gift box, shoe box, Pringles or tennis
ball can, 13x9 baking dish.
Place the paint into the muffin tins. Drop a few marbles in each color. Lay the paper into the bottom of box or roll it up for round container. Place marbles from one color into the container and roll around by moving the box from side to side etc. Remove that color and continue with the other colors.
This painting style can be used to create unique Holiday decorations. Cut your paper into the desired shape, Heart, Shamrock, Easter Egg Then continue with painting process.
