This is a fun idea for creating art using the salad spinner that I picked up from Goodwill the other day for 99 cents. I've been wanting to try this project for a long time, but I never wanted to spend full price on a salad spinner, so I was really excited that Goodwill had a stash of four or five of them for super cheap! This idea came from Chasing Cheerios, but we modified it a bit and used washable tempera paint instead of food coloring.
We chose three colors of paint and watered it down a lot. I'd say it was probably a 50/50 mix of water and paint or maybe just a little less water than 50/50. I made sure that the boys chose paint colors that would still look nice when they were all mixed together.
First and foremost, I have to remind everyone that if you're going to try salad spinner art COVER YOUR WORK AREA because it gets messy! We used a kitchen sized plastic garbage bag under us, and it made for easy clean up later. I cut circle shapes from regular computer paper (I didn't try any other paper, but I'd guess that construction paper would be too absorbent to get a nice spin on the paint) and put them into the spinner basket. I had the boys use old medicine droppers to drip on the paint, so they also got a nice refresher lesson on how to use the droppers since we hadn't used them in awhile.
We started out with just a few drops of paint, but the results were actually better when we used more paint. I'd say that we used about 5-6 full droppers on our prettiest paintings.
The first few times we spun the art I let the kids do it, but as more and more paint started to build up in the basket and on the work area, I took over spin duty to keep it a little bit cleaner.
I also found that you don't want to spin it too fast/too much or your watery paint will just fly off the paper, and you'll end up with lighter and more washed out results.
3 comments:
Looks like your little guys are having so much fun. This reminds me of when I was a little girl in the 1950's and we'd go to the carnival. There was a booth where you could create a "spinning painted artwork" piece and I loved it!! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Such fun and so so cute!!!! Love it!!! This reminded me so much of when my sons were little. I was always getting them to try crafty things!!! LOL One loved it, the other didin't...Enjoy them at that age, it goes by so so fast!!!!!!
Oh! This is such a cool idea! I know my four-year-old would love this too! Thank you for the inspiration, Kristin :)
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