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February 25, 2013

Rainbow Q-Tip Painting

My day care kiddos love painting and doing projects.  As soon as they walk in the door they are asking what project they get to do.  It makes my heart melt.  I love when kids excited about creating.  Today I set up a simple painting activity.  Instead of using paint brushes, I set out Q-Tips (cotton buds) for the kids to paint with.  They loved this simple Rainbow Q-Tip Painting project.

Painting Q-Tip Rainbows

Materials:

  • Liquid Water Colors or watered down liquid food coloring
  • Q-Tips (Cotton Buds)
  • White Paper

Painting Q-Tip Rainbows.The kids loved dipping their Q-Tips in the liquid watercolor and sliding it across the paper.  I added a Q-Tip to each of the colors to simple help keep the colors bright, and encouraged the kids to d their mixing on the paper.

Painting Q-Tip Rainbows

I love this little elbow propped on their paper in pure concentration:)

Painting Q-Tip RainbowsSwitching up what you offer your kids to paint with is a great way to keep things fun and exciting.  If you are looking for more interesting ways to paint with your kids you won’t want to miss my Painting without Brushes Pinterest board.

I also encouraged the kids to make puddles of water colors on their paper.  They loved watching the colors pool and mix into new colors.  While their painting was still wet, the kids sprinkled it with salt.  Salt reacts with the watercolor as it dries and creates a beautiful texture.  Make sure to let your painting completely dry before brushing off the salt.

Painting Q-Tip RainbowsWe love painting with Q-tips, check out these other fun Q-tip projects:

  • Bleach and Sharpie Valentines
  • Recycled Christmas Tree

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Related posts:

  1. Pour Painting with Watercolors
  2. Raised Salt Painting
  3. Sorting the Rainbow
  4. Rainbow Crafts
Posted in Kid Art, Spring and tagged Painting, Q-Tips, Rainbow, Spring, St. Patrick's Day.

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11 thoughts on “Rainbow Q-Tip Painting”

  1. Rachael on February 27, 2013 at 11:18 am said:

    I love the tray and paint containers! Where are they from?

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  2. Rachele on February 28, 2013 at 3:04 pm said:

    Love it!!! Where did you get that neat paint holder???

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    • Tammy on March 7, 2013 at 1:38 pm said:

      The tray is from IKEA. I bought it a few years ago, so I am not sure if they still carry them. I love our paint holders. They are actually from a set of acrylic paints that came in a kit. I washed them out and use them all the time.

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  8. "Auntie" Angela on April 22, 2013 at 9:05 am said:

    I’m going to try this out with my daycare kids. What a great way to work on those fine motor skills.

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    • Tammy on April 22, 2013 at 11:34 am said:

      We had so much fun with this one! I would love to hear how it goes!

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  9. Hae Jung on October 28, 2014 at 10:15 pm said:

    It looks like they did the rainbow first but how did they do the background? I would love to do this with my students! They paintings look absolutely gorgeous!

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