I think the idea for this art project arose one day when I had our liquid watercolors out to do another activity. Whenever I pull out liquid watercolors, I always bring out the paper towels as well to quickly mop up any spills.
Well, in soaking up a tiny spill I noticed how pretty the liquid watercolor paint looked on the paper towel. So I thought, why not try painting paper towels?
Note: For more art projects your kids will enjoy, see my Arts and Crafts for Kids page.
I started by placing a paper towel onto a tray.
I supplied six different colors of liquid watercolors to paint with, and a nice selection of paint brushes.
Then I let my kids get to work. They touched their brushes to the paper to allow the liquid paint to soak in.
They also used their fingers to flick and splatter paint onto the paper towels.
I encouraged them to keep going until the entire paper towel was colored with paint.
The end results were gorgeous!
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So lovely!!!! Will try these with my kids
These look amazing! Would watered-down tempera paint work?
I doubt it would work as well, but perhaps if you got it really diluted it might. You can always give it a try and see!
This is an amazing activity! Would watered down food coloring also work?
I expect it would work just fine. Why not give it a try and see!
Cute idea, but what I really like are those trays! Where did get them?
Thanks.
The larger trays I got at Lakeshore Learning: https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/products/arts-crafts/craft-collage-materials/easy-clean-craft-trays-set-of-4/s/BX532/
The smaller trays are from Dab and Dot: https://amzn.to/2x9adBb
Would regular watercolors work as well?
As long as they were liquidy enough, I imagine they would work just fine. Give it a try and let me know how it goes!