Power Drill Painting

This was a great Messy Friday project.  The kids had a blast with this one, esp the girls.  More girls need to learn to use tools...but that's another post...
The set up was pretty straight forward for this one, however, I completely forgot to cover the table in paper.  I guess I was just too excited.  It turned into a great cleaning/scrubbing lesson for the kids though haha.

I started off with a few jars of paint and would switch out the paint brush every time the child wanted to paint with a different color.  Quickly I saw that all the colors were just mixing in the jars anyway.  It worked out better to have the child pick a few colors that I then just poured onto the paper.  It was a lot easier than stopping to switch out paint brushes all the time.  When I do this again, I think I will put the paint into squeeze bottles and let the kids squirt their own paint onto the paper in whatever design they want first before they start to play with the drill.

When the kids were finished, the paintings had to be left out on a flat surface to dry.  Some of the kids took the handle end of a paint brush and drew pictures or wrote their names in the paint.

By the way, the bigger the paint brush, the bigger the splatter!