Skip to main content

Snap Painting

This week the kids and I had a TON of fun doing the silly little art activity, snap painting. 


Supplies: an large old frame, a sheet of paper larger than your frame, washable paint, foam brushes, various size rubber bands. 


Step 1: pull rubber bands around frame

the kids were only able to do about half the bands, i helped with the rest

Step 2: paint top portion of rubber bands

you can see here that big buddy started to paint the bottom of the rubber
band too. it doesn't matter too much - it just makes it more difficult to
see the splatters. 

Step 3: snap the rubber bands


it makes a pretty cool snap sound on top of splattering
the paint - mini man thought it was hilarious

Step 4: repeat steps 2 & 3 until you are pleased with your design

creation #1

creation #2

This activity can get a little messy but it is totally worth it for all the giggles it produces. 
Labels:

Comments

  1. cate @ wild ruffleSeptember 5, 2012 at 10:04 PM

    Oh, I'm definitely going to have to try this with my kids - they would have such a great time with it!

    ReplyDelete
  2. maggy, red ted artSeptember 6, 2012 at 11:57 AM

    Ooh this DOES look like brilliant fun! I know two small people who would love this!

    Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!

    Maggy

    ReplyDelete
  3. HannahSeptember 6, 2012 at 4:03 PM

    Hi, I'm just stopping over from Making Boys Men where I've just nominated your awesome blog for the Liebster Award (my post goes live Fri 7th) - Congratulations!

    ReplyDelete
  4. UnknownSeptember 7, 2012 at 12:29 AM

    Look at that big smile on your son's face! Definitely worth all the mess! Can't wait to try this.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Trisha @ Inspiration LaboratoriesSeptember 14, 2012 at 11:15 PM

    This looks like tons of messy fun! Thanks for sharing at the Sunday Showcase. :)

    ReplyDelete
  6. Devon PillinsSeptember 17, 2012 at 7:51 PM

    I love the activity. Kids will surely enjoy this one at home and they'll learn at the same time. Your kids are adorable too. They are so delighted.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Jennifer GonnamSeptember 29, 2012 at 11:49 PM

    Rachel, this looks like so much fun! I'm going to have to try it with my boys. Thanks for sharing!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment - you make me smile :)

Popular posts from this blog

A Little Red Cardboard Barn

We've finished our farm unit and are moving on to a new theme tomorrow - but before we do I wanted share the barn we made. The wooden farm animals came with a beautiful handmade ark that we gave Big Buddy for Christmas a couple years ago.  I would someday love to have a wood barn but it's currently not in the budget. So in the mean time we decided to improvise and make our own.  I stumbled upon this perfectly sized milk box (4 gallons per box) while subbing and thought it would be sturdy enough to handle play. Hubandie and the boys used an x-acto knife and wood glue to build a barn shape. to get the doors to fold out hubandie used an x-acto knife and scored the inside of the cardboard We then painted with a basic primer and outlined a window and a door with painters tape. cardboard is very porous so priming is a must if you want decent coverage Big Buddy however insisted that we add more windows so it looked like the barn in our book The Big
139 comments
This post is a long one, click thru to see more »

Preschool Syllabus: Dr. Seuss

Normally I'd do a Dr. Seuss unit in March around his birthday. We had to do one now though because on Saturday Big Buddy and I going on a date to a  Dr. Seuss exhibit . The exhibit is only at the museum until January and I'm afraid if we don't go now we might not get the chance. We are of course reading lots of Dr. Seuss's books. A great advatage to studying Dr. Seuss in November rather than March is that all his books were available at the library. I also found a great children's biography which is perfect for preschoolers. Pebble First Biographies: Dr. Seuss  We've read it a couple times and Big Buddy loves reciting all the facts he's learned WRITING CENTER ADDITIONS big buddy's name in sand paper letters, coloring pages  & mazes from seussville.com skills practiced: fine motor, letter recognition, creativity,  reading comprehension LEARNING "TRAYS" -   I rotate these, setting out about four a day from which the boy&#
131 comments
This post is a long one, click thru to see more »

Jack-O-Lanterns on the Fridge

Last fall I saw the idea for refrigerator pumpkins with face pieces in FamilyFun Magazine  and have been anxious to recreate them ever since. It was pretty quick and easy and since the only thing we didn't have on hand was magnetic sheets ($1.50 with coupon at Joann's) it was also very cheap. my supplies: magnetic sheets, orange & black construction paper, white pen, tacky glue *i know they have self adhesive sheets but my Joann's didn't carry them   glued (very messily) and ready to cut Both the boys were quite enthused when they discovered them after rest time :) Hopefully it will keep them entertained until we carve real pumpkins. 
249 comments
This post is a long one, click thru to see more »