Dropper Painting – I enjoyed this as much as the kids did!
Our Ten Favourite Easy Painting Activities
My kids love to paint. Come to think of it I quite like to paint too, which is probably the real reason we do it so often.
While I like to paint I don’t like to spend ages setting up or cleaning up fancy activities. My goal is for it to be fun and easy, for everyone.
Here are ten of our favourite, easy painting activities…
Cotton Bud Painting – so easy and really not much mess at all.
Blow Painting – A few straws and a whole lot of fun.
Bubble Painting – this one is a little messy but loads of fun.
Ice Painting– the perfect activity for a hot day.
Magic Painting– just like crayon resist but with a white wax candle, so you can’t see it till you paint over it!
Finger painting – splodge some paint on a plastic covered table top and enjoy!
Dropper Painting – I enjoyed this as much as the kids did!
Squish Painting – this is an all time favourite in our house.
Painting on Foil – so simple yet one of my most popular posts of all time.
Experimenting with Water Colours – two water colour activities to try.
Do you like to muck around with paint?
What’s your favourite painting activity?
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Children chose one tempera paint color to mix with black and white paint to create dark and light hues.
More Ideas for Mixing Colors:
Mix the 8 basic colors with white.
Mix the primaries (red, blue, yellow) with each other.
Mix the primaries with white.
Mix the 8 basic colors with a little brown or black.
Mix a primary color with a secondary color.
Children paint a representation of a flower with tempera paint.
Children had real gourds to use as models for their painting. They first drew outlines and details of their gourds with black ink pens, and then painted them with tempera paint. We had a variety of hues of paint, and the children matched the hues of paint to the hues of color on the gourds. We used our thinnest paintbrushes.
Wax Resist
Children drew pictures with oil pastels and painted over the paper with liquid watercolor. The first picture has night animals washed over with black paint and the second picture has ocean animals washed over with blue-green paint.
