art for tinies: spinny!
Jan. 27th, 2012 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraProject: Salad Spinner Art
Materials: an old salad spinner (or one you don't mind scrubbing), somewhat thick paint (we used Crayola Washable Fingerpaint because it's the paint we have and use for all paint-craft needs), paper
Explanatory details: Junie traced around the bottom of the spinner basket and I cut out the circle, then we put it in the bottom of the salad spinner. I squeezed out paint directly from the tube, with Junie suggesting where I should (try to) put it and when to stop and change colors. Individual drops seemed to give more dramatic results than longer blobs or lines. She got the spinner started and then I cranked it up to full speed.
How did it go: Great fun! She wanted to do it again and I think she would have kept on for more than three times if I hadn't needed to sit down. We talked about how the spinner made the paint run out to the edge of the paper and looked at how paint had splattered out through the basket all around the bowl of the spinner. (This could easily be a science activity if you wanted to talk more about What Is Going On Here and less about Ooh Pretty.)
ETA: If you really didn't want to put paint in your salad spinner, you could try doing it with condiments - I bet ketchup or yellow mustard would smear out nicely, although it would be less suitable for saving and hanging up afterwards.
Materials: an old salad spinner (or one you don't mind scrubbing), somewhat thick paint (we used Crayola Washable Fingerpaint because it's the paint we have and use for all paint-craft needs), paper
Explanatory details: Junie traced around the bottom of the spinner basket and I cut out the circle, then we put it in the bottom of the salad spinner. I squeezed out paint directly from the tube, with Junie suggesting where I should (try to) put it and when to stop and change colors. Individual drops seemed to give more dramatic results than longer blobs or lines. She got the spinner started and then I cranked it up to full speed.
How did it go: Great fun! She wanted to do it again and I think she would have kept on for more than three times if I hadn't needed to sit down. We talked about how the spinner made the paint run out to the edge of the paper and looked at how paint had splattered out through the basket all around the bowl of the spinner. (This could easily be a science activity if you wanted to talk more about What Is Going On Here and less about Ooh Pretty.)
ETA: If you really didn't want to put paint in your salad spinner, you could try doing it with condiments - I bet ketchup or yellow mustard would smear out nicely, although it would be less suitable for saving and hanging up afterwards.
