Here's a list of things to paint with! Be creative and let their imaginations soar!!!
Paint brushes of all sizes
Q-tip swabs
Pencil erasers
Rubber scrapers/spatula
Pine Branches
A Pine Cone
Willow leaves
Pastry brush
Sponges
Bingo bottles
Hands and fingers
Toes
Body sponges/puffs
Feathers
Toilet cleaner brushes
Vegetable brushes
Make-up brushes and sponges
Squirt bottles
Eye Droppers
Shaving brushes
Potatoes and other veggies cut into shapes
Carrot and celery tops(a good one to go with the story "Tops and Bottoms")
Toothbrushes
Marbles in a box
Matchbox cars
Kitchen sponges that have the handle that you can add soap; add paint instead
Ribbon or string
16 oz or 2 ltr pop bottle bottom
Pipe Cleaners
Old Hairbrush
Sticks
Tongue depressers/popsicle sticks
Flowers
Blow through a straw
Potato masher
Gummy worms
Plastic dish scrubbers
Pop cans
Hair dryer Lay down newspaper or do this outside. Put paper on top of the newspaper and give two kids each a hair dryer. Let them have a hair dryer fight with runny paint!! Mix up colors to make new colors and cool designs by blowing the paint around the paper.
Plastic dinosaur or other animals footprints
Old chicken bones or bones from a turkey I wash them and spray them with clear laquer so they don't rot. I also bury them in a sand table when we are talking about dinosaurs. idea from Dawn at Alhambra Head Start
