Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Take a Break: Finger paint

So when was the last time you finger-painted? Kindergarten? Preschool? Today is all about creating amazing art just using parts of your hands. For inspiration, watch Chinese artist paint a banyan tree in five minutes just using his hand and black ink. Okay, the artist has been doing this since he was a little boy.

So step one is to either purchase or make your own finger paint. There are so many different recipes for making finger paints, that it’s cheaper, easier and most likely safer, just to make it yourself. Check out the following links for recipes:

Finger Paint Recipes for Toddlers and Twos

How to Make Finger Paints video

If you have kids, or are around them for any length of time, you’ll know that just about anything can be (and is) used for finger painting. Chocolate pudding is a favorite medium for the under 10 set. In short, you’d be surprised what you can use for finger painting. Experiment!

There is specially designed finger painting paper, but just use with whatever you have on hand. Can't remember how you did it as a kid? Check out Finger painting tips from Crayola. And if you don’t like getting your fingers messy, “there is an app for that.”

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