Fun Painting Ideas

Next time your little preschool artist is doing some painting, try some of these ideas to add a little something different.

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• Finger painting ~ let them get all gooshy making patterns in paint on the table, then rub a plain piece of paper over the top.

• Add sand or glitter to paint or sprinkle it over the finished (wet) artwork.

• Dip a sea sponge in paint and dab it around. This makes great tree leaves and bushes, just paint lines for branches afterwards.

• Soak a regular flat sponge in paint and use it to dip stamps in. Gives lovely even coverage.

• Instead of stamps, drive an old toy car over the sponge and then drive it over a piece of paper for a great tyre track painting.

• Another alternative to stamps is a simple fly swat. Smack the paint~soaked sponge with it and then swat your paper. You can even draw a few little black flies on there.

• Put a few dabs of different coloured paints in the middle of a piece of paper and fold in half. This gives you a butterfly shape which you can cut out (once it dries) and stick on the wall with blutac.

• Paint leaves, flowers, and plastic toys to use as stamps. Kids will learn by seeing what sort of results they get with each item.

• Make up a half~in~half mixture of acrylic paint and pvc glue to make coloured glues for craft projects.

Now you’ve made all those creative works of art, you just need to think of ways to use them.

Tune in next time for more ideas…