This month’s Kids Art Explorers project is all about trying out painting – but with no paint brushes allowed. This week we set up a No Pain Brush Paint Station and went on a hunt to see what we could find around the house that might be good to paint with. The children found some great stuff. They discovered lots of different shapes and textures and were excited to be painting with things they considered rather daring!
Kids painting station: no paint brushes allowed!
This month’s Kids Art Explorers project is all about trying out painting – but with no paint brushes allowed. This week we set up a No Pain Brush Paint Station and went on a hunt to see what we could find around the house that might be good to paint with. The children found some great stuff. They discovered lots of different shapes and textures and were excited to be painting with things they considered rather daring!
I’m so thrilled that lots of you are joining in with the Kids Art Explorers project and trying out alternative ways to paint. Here’s what we used in our paint station and another opportunity at the end to check out all the great art the other Explorers have been making.
In the photo at the top you’ll see some of things the kids collected to add to the paint station. We laid out a roll of decorators lining paper and some trays of paint and we set to work.
The potato mashers were a big hit. Fun to use and great for stamping.
These washing up sponges in flower shapes were great to splat.
The children were interested to see how the nail brush could be used in different ways to get different effects – swipes and stamps.
How to cool to be able to get a fork from the cutlery drawer and dip it in paint! They found is was very good for scraping patterns in the paint…
and also for making repeating zig zags.
The shower scrunchy was nice for swooshing and wiping out the other patterns on the paper.
And the bubble wrap made a great mottled patter. The kids spent a long time at our paint station. I think the ‘anything goes’ rule about the painting materials encouraged them to really test our just what effects they could create. The big roll of paper gave them plenty of space to try out each implement and also to go back over their work and experiment with layering one style of painting over another.
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the fork makes great marks both in the paint and with paint on it, but my favourite has to be the potato masher. I think i will do this with Goblin (in the garden) but knowing him he’ll end up with just his hands.
Thanks for linking to Kids Co-op (and starting it of course!)
Great ideas! We use a potato masher for play dough, I never thought of using it with paint!
Oh, I love the idea of a no paintbrush painting station. I will have to create one for my older daughter (painting obsessed!)
So fun and CREATIVE! Pinning now….
Jen
I LOVE the concept of ‘no paint brushes allowed’ – it promotes so much creativity! I am always looking around at things differently to see what we could use next! We will use the brush next time :o) Thanks for hosting this awesome linky!
Hadn’t realised you had a linky going! I am *definitely* linking up my session from earlier now, just need to write it first
Yes TheBoyandMe – come and join in!
I love the idea of a paint free painting station – thank you so much for this I love stepping outside of J’s paint brush comfort zone – he even got his hands marginally messy this time
looks like so much fun! We are definitely going to try this one. xx
Just dropping by to let you know that I am featuring this for my Kid Co- Op post tomorrow. I just love it! Fantastic idea! 🙂
Snap Crystal – you’re in my Kids Co-op post tomorrow too!
We love painting with all sorts of objects, so seeing your ideas was inspiring. Pinning it to my kids art board. Vicky from http://www.messforless.net