I'll tape the ziplock bag, with the finger paint inside of it (no paper) to a window! That way she could "paint" with the bag upright, and the sun through the smeared paint would be fun for her to experiment with. I put two primary colors in each bag, and taped top and bottom of the bags to our sliding glass door. Then I let Bean go to town with moving the paint around and mixing the colors. One of the best parts? It's lasted for days. I literally had no extra air in the bags, and I guess because of that the paint hasn't dried yet. She was able to doodle about it over and over again. She loved it! It's definitely a simple activity, with big results that we will be doing again.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Mess Free Window Painting
So you know the mess free finger painting that's been floating around Pinterest? Well, I never have luck taking the paper out of this, and Bean always tries to hold it upright so I began to think about where I could put finger paint, in a ziplock baggie, so it would be upright for her to mess around with. Originally I thought I'd just tape it to the wall but then I worried that would promote the idea of drawing on walls is okay. Didn't even want to test that road out. Then I had a brilliant idea!
I'll tape the ziplock bag, with the finger paint inside of it (no paper) to a window! That way she could "paint" with the bag upright, and the sun through the smeared paint would be fun for her to experiment with. I put two primary colors in each bag, and taped top and bottom of the bags to our sliding glass door. Then I let Bean go to town with moving the paint around and mixing the colors. One of the best parts? It's lasted for days. I literally had no extra air in the bags, and I guess because of that the paint hasn't dried yet. She was able to doodle about it over and over again. She loved it! It's definitely a simple activity, with big results that we will be doing again.
I'll tape the ziplock bag, with the finger paint inside of it (no paper) to a window! That way she could "paint" with the bag upright, and the sun through the smeared paint would be fun for her to experiment with. I put two primary colors in each bag, and taped top and bottom of the bags to our sliding glass door. Then I let Bean go to town with moving the paint around and mixing the colors. One of the best parts? It's lasted for days. I literally had no extra air in the bags, and I guess because of that the paint hasn't dried yet. She was able to doodle about it over and over again. She loved it! It's definitely a simple activity, with big results that we will be doing again.
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100% Totally Brilliant idea!
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