With days filled with rain this spring or days filled with pollen at my house, children are looking for activities to do inside.I looked through my archives of post last week and found 14 different ways to paint. Painting is a wonderfully fun way to spend time when you have to be indoors. I hope you will find a new way on this list that your children will really enjoy.
Last year for Mother’s Day JDaniel decorated the photo mat to put around a Mother’s Day poem with his fingertips. I love how it turned out and so did my mom.
We talked about the Olympic torch while working on activities with an Olympic theme last summer. I wrapped a paper towel around a kitchen spoon and JDaniel dipped it in the paint. Tapping the spoon in the paint made a fun design on the paper towel.
A simple magnet (large enough for a child to hold) moved under a paper plate with paint blobs and a paperclip on it make a wonderful painting experience.
When JDaniel was younger, this was his favorite way to paint. I loved how mess free it was. You simply place loose paint and a piece card stock into the bottom of a salad spinner. Children just push down on the spinning element for as long as they like. When it is done, the card stock is filled with swirls of paint.
One of the beech trees in our backyard is forever dropping tree limbs. JDaniel and I decided to use them as paintbrushes in a post I wrote for the Kid’s Activities Blog.
Cookie cutters make great stencils for children to paint in. They just place the cookie cutter where they want it on the paper and swirl the paintbrush inside the cooking cutter. We did just that in another post for the Kid’s Activities Blog.
JDaniel loved breaking up the chalk for this paint. It required a hammer and smashing. There are millions of ways to paint with kids. I hope you will find that these 14 ways for kids to paint are ones your family will enjoy.
Oh! I have over 100 ways to paints with kids pins on my Ways to Paint with Kids Pinterest board. I would love for you to stop by and check them out.
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About Deirdre
Welcome! My name is Deirdre and I am JDaniel4's Mom. After teaching in Virginia for twenty years, I was a stay at home mom learning and growing beside my son JDaniel the 4th for five years. I recently went back to teaching at a local school here in South Carolina.
We’re going to have to try that magnet painting! That could be good for hours of entertainment!
Liz @ A Nut in a Nutshellsays
You’re going to stave off boredom for moms and kids everywhere!
amber whiteheadsays
great ways to paint thanks
The Dose of Realitysays
Such great idea! -The Dose Girls
Emmysays
Never would have thought of some of these ways! Thanks!!
Miasays
Love this! Will pin and tweet!
~ Noellesays
love all the ways you share with us 🙂 hope you had a wonderful mothers day!!!!!!!!
Jennifer Fischersays
Love it. We recently did painting with homemade paints using only milk caps and toilet paper rolls to paint with and painted inside a cardboard box with them. Excited to share it on the blog soon!
We’re going to have to try that magnet painting! That could be good for hours of entertainment!
You’re going to stave off boredom for moms and kids everywhere!
great ways to paint thanks
Such great idea! -The Dose Girls
Never would have thought of some of these ways! Thanks!!
Love this! Will pin and tweet!
love all the ways you share with us 🙂
hope you had a wonderful mothers day!!!!!!!!
Love it. We recently did painting with homemade paints using only milk caps and toilet paper rolls to paint with and painted inside a cardboard box with them. Excited to share it on the blog soon!