Painting with Marbles and Cars

We had some little friends over for a play date and decided to paint with marbles. Before I told them we were going to paint, I prepped. I some mini-dixie paper cups and put a smidge of paint in each one. They were each given one marble to put in the paint, swish it around....

...and pour out onto paper (in a cookie sheet so that the marble doesn't roll). We love this form of painting and it's great fun to introduce to kids of all ages...and not very messy :)

We liked the lines we were creating so I decided to get some cars out for them to make "tracks." M saw an episode of curious george on animal tracks and since then notices tracks everywhere (in the snow, on the driveway, in our marble painting).

Vroom vroom

Try this out with your kids too, great fun will be had by all!

Apple Print Wreaths

Supplies:

Apples, cut in half

Paper plate, with the center cut out

paint

glue

We cut apples in half. When you cut through the core it leaves a star design from the seeds. Great for apple printing. So pretty.

Once dried, we cut each apple out. And cut a hole in the center of a paper plate to make a wreath. The girls then glued the apples onto the paper plate to make the wreath (didn't get a picture).

My oldest really likes to be creative with whatever project she is working on. So when we were glueing the apples onto the wreath she made a sheep out of glue instead. Silly girl. Here is her glue sheep.

Painting Jelly-Fish

Supplies: jelly-roll pan, tempura paint (or any other child-safe paint), marbles, cardboard or paper, streamer paper.

We added a bit of paint in the bottom of plastic cups and then rolled marbles inside and dumped them out on our cardboard. Since this is inside the jelly-roll pan the marble is contained.

And then if you want you can squish your fingers all around it and come up with some beautiful colors

M glued on the streamers (I cut strips out of tissue paper).