Double Brush Painting

It is time for another Paint and Play weekly challenge.  If this is your first time joining us,  the focus for our weekly series is all about the process, having fun and getting kids excited to create art with fun and unique mediums!  Our challenge this week was to create art with Kitchen Gadgets.  Growing A Jeweled Rose got creative making Electric Art, and we pulled out our Kiddie Chopstick Helpers to create a fun Double Brush Painting technique.

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We don’t eat out very often, but my kids love being treated Chinese take-out.  One of our favorite local Chinese restaurants often gives our kids Chopstick Helpers.  The goal with this simple kitchen gadget is designed to help kids get comfortable eating with chopsticks.  My kids and I recently discovered that paintbrushes fit into our Chopstick Helpers perfectly, creating a fun Double Paintbrush.    

To create your own Double Paintbrush all you need is:

• Chopstick Helpers
• 2 Skinny Paint Brushes

Since our challenge was to create with Kitchen Gadgets, we chose to make our watercolors with food coloring.  Just a few drop of food coloring in some water creates frugal and beautiful watercolors.   

We tried a few different paintbrushes before we found a pair that fit snugly into the Chopstick Helpers.

This is a great exercise for kids to work on their fine motor skills.  One paint brush is fun, but two is a blast!

The kids quickly discovered that with a little pressure, you can squeeze the paintbrushes together and release.  This will create a fun and squiggly wavy pattern.

We had so much fun creating with our simple double paintbrushes.  The patterns that the kids created were beautiful and the process is something that we will play with again.

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I love this fun Electric Art from Growing A Jeweled Rose.  My kids enjoy using an electric drill, so I know that they would love creating art with a hand mixer!

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Don’t miss out on any of our Paint and Play series.

Our kids have had so much fun creating process art.  If you are looking for some fun inspiration, check out what we have created with balloons, spin art, pendulums, candy, ice, marbles, touch painting, bubbles and school supplies.

 Make sure you stop back in next week for more Paint and Play!

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Last week we created this simple Compass Painting which inspired out post today.

If you love process art like us, then check out my Painting Without Brushes Pinterest board.  It is packed full of fun ideas.