Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Painting on Tinfoil, Revisited

While the little guy was on the mend, he asked to paint on tinfoil. We accidentally discovered this activity, but had yet to actually try it again. When he looked at me with his pale little face and asked to do try it, I hustled my little much larger than little booty over to the pantry to whip out some sheets of tinfoil.

Alas, this project still seemed magical to my little guy.


He loves to mix colors when painting,but often when doing so on paper, the colors that are produced are usually a stunning shade of brown. On tinfoil, there is less brown-ness, and much more swirling gorgeous colors.

I wanted to press the paper down gently to hopefully get a print of this swirling goodness, so that is what I tried to do. As soon as I carefully placed the paper down, two little super fast hands rushed to mash and squish the paper down.



I think they still came out quite lovely, squished colors and all.

12 comments:

Jill @ A Mom With A Lesson Plan said...

Great idea, adding the tin foil. I usually have them paint on the table for reverse painting. It takes forever to clean up!

learning table said...

What fun!

Justine said...

Thanks! The tin foil did make it a super quick clean up!

Grandma Bonnie said...

New follower from Just 'Cuz Blog Hop.
Hope you follow back.

jessicaclarke said...

Thanks for stopping by my blog, following u back. I'll have to try this I've been putting off doing to much painting due to the mess(selfish mommy) but my little guy loves it. I'll have to try this out.

Stacy@{share and remember} said...

I've been thinking of painting on foil - I like this idea with making prints! Neat!

LocalFunForKids said...

It looks like he had so much fun with this!
Thanks for linking up with Fun for Kids Friday.
Have a great weekend!

LocalFunForKids said...

P.S. I love the name of your blog ; )

Justine said...

Thank you!

Mandi said...

Ooh, we've never painted on foil! Great idea! I'm loving your adorable blog!

Justine said...

Thank you so much Mandi!

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas said...

Oh, Justine - we have not painted on foil! I must try this - my girls LOVE mixing colors but as you said we usually end up with a brown blob by the time all is done - this seems so much prettier and of course more fun to try something new!

I am off to find my tin foil! Thanks for linking to the Sunday Showcase - your ideas are always so much fun and so doable - love that! :)

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