Did you use edicol or what for colouring?

::: Powdered Edicol Lesley. liquid Food colouring can be used of course but we love the intensity of the Edicol.

What kind of easels are you using? Did you make them yourself or buy them? Are they easy to set up outside/inside?

Thanks!

I am a grandmother who is still 10 at heart! I am so playing with this idea! The possibilities are endless. What a great way to make greeting cards. Even apply a bit of ink while it is still wet!

Thanks so much for sharing.

Looks like everyone had fun; I like Tom’s idea about spraying around a shape! We’ve just been ‘cave painting’ this week and the children sprayed around their hands. We found the little travel atomizers worked best for that project, as you get such a fine mist. I wanted to post the project this weekend, but similar to how you felt when your camera had a ‘hissy fit’, I’ve left the bloomin’ camera at work!!! Duh!!!

HI Tom and girls, like you Tom, the children like to use the trigger type spray bottles more often than the small press ones – but get them from your families – the windex type bottles well washed out last for literally months of energetic use. (It’s a painting activity that some boys especially love, when they might not want to pick up a brush very often otherwise – something to do with using a tool perhaps – apart from all the other obvious attractions of spray painting!)

Interesting! We create a kind of obstacle course every day for the children to play on outside using balance beams, boards, ‘A’ frames, ladders, tyre, logs and the like … we just thought every body did this type of thing … hmmm … we’ll have to do a post on this for you Tom!

Also love the paint ideas … another tick in the good ideas box … thanks Tom

Oh, and another fun thing to do with spray bottle painting is to mask part of the target paper with a shape of some sort (triangle, fish, star) then remove it when the child is done spraying to show them the “magic” painting they’ve made. Just make sure to remove it right away or the paint soaks through the paper you’ve used for masking.

We also like to just unfurl one large piece of paper and make it a group project. Then they not only spray their own faces, but each others as well! Good times! =)

Yep! That tends to be our experience exactly. We’ve tried the trigger type that are more like pistols and those are easier, but they really aren’t sturdy enough for preschool use and are almost always out of commission by the end of the day. (An interesting side note: as a boy, my family lived across the street from the man who invented the trigger style spray bottle. He earned a penny for each one sold moved to a much bigger house about a year later.)

I’m excited by all your tires with boards and balance beams connecting them. I’ve never seen them (or noticed them) before! A parent asked me last week if we could use more tires and I said I didn’t know. I’m going to shoot her an email tonight! That looks fun!

Wow this is a great resource.. I’m enjoying it.. good article