21 February 2014

Splatter painting

I've decided that Friday's should be messy. It's Friday!!  Let's have fun! 
This week I covered the tables in paper and walked around pouring paint in various colors all over. The kids were given smocks and straws. They then went to work blowing the paint around with their straws. The only rules were 1) no hands allowed in the paint and 2) no blowing paint on your friends. 
It was awesome. The kids had a blast. One of them quickly discovered that if you put the end of the straw in a glob of paint, you may get some bubbles to form. 
This was a great painting craft for the kids. They saw that you can use something other than your hands to make a piece of art. 
The one thing we learned was that it's best to pour small strips of paint rather than in little piles. It took forever to dry but well worth it.