Have a go at action painting with marbles and rubber balls.
While away an hour or two in the garden making patterns and paintings with this exciting activity.
This is a great way to make decorated papers or even wrapping paper if made on a bigger scale.
What you’ll need:
Paper
Shallow tray or box lid (to fit your paper)
Ready mixed paint
Marbles and rubber balls in lots of sizes
What to do:
Line a shallow tray or box lid with paper.
Squirt dollops of paint on the paper.
Place the balls in the paint.
(Another way to do it is fill a muffin tray with different paints and drop marbles in to coat with paint. Give the kids a teaspoon each to scoop out the painty marble into the paper filled tray.)
Start rolling and moving the balls by tipping the tray.
Remove the painting to dry and start all over again!
We used a printer paper box lid lined with A4 paper but any lipped tray will work.
Paint!
We used marbles and rubber balls but again, you can use any balls your children have lying around!
Drop dollops of paint onto your paper lined box or tray and place the balls into the paint.
Marble Painting
Start with one colour then add more colours and more balls for different patterns.
Some of our finished marble paintings.
Next we tried a big box, big poster paper and bigger balls!
This time the boy and girl moved the box together.
One of our big ball paintings.
Why not turn large paintings into wrapping paper and make your gifts more personalised.
