Don't be afraid to paint with children at home! Cover the surface with newspaper or a cheap tablecloth from your dollar store and cover your child with an old t-shirt. Let the creative juices flow!
We paint with all sorts of things. The blog with dollar store monster truck and an old map is just one idea you can use at home, Sunday school, or with any group of children. Here are a few more-
We save corks, marker lids and large lids from laundry detergent and aerosol cans. I still have some 35 mm film canisters (and would take more if you have 'em) that we will use for painting. I was cleaning out this weekend and found plastic Easter eggs from when my boys were little. We are going to use them for painting this week. Get out your cookie cutters and paint.
We use Styrofoam egg cartons to hold the paint. Reusing is recycling and best of all it makes clean up super easy. At the end of the day, we store the cartons in plastic grocery bags to prevent them from drying out. At the end of the week, we throw it all away.
When we pour the paint, we alternate the egg cups to keep the colors separate. We coordinate the marker lids with the paint color. The egg lids hold paint for larger lids.
Because we are on a budget, we paint on a wide variety of paper. All of our white art paper has been donated and is old perforated computer paper. We also have lots of wallpaper and wallpaper borders that we paint. You can paint on newspaper, old maps, old calendars. The possibilities are only limited to your imagination.
Want to do more? I checked at the local super store and they carry canvas for painting. They are located in the arts and crafts section. A three pack size 8 x 10 was about five dollars. A three pack size 16 x 20 was about ten dollars.
