Kids Art: Spray Paint..with leaves, cardboard tubes, masking tape & playdoh caps!

I've written about how I manage paint mess and that there is nothing I can't handle as long as the 3 big rules are in place: 

1. All activity in the balcony area, NOT inside the house. 

2. Use only tempera paint 

3. Wear CRAP Clothes.

But this activity takes the cake!

It's mess like you've never seen before.

And as long as the 3 rules were in place, it was pretty manageable!

I thought it'll be fun making silhouettes of leaves. But my 3 year old suffers from the over spraying syndrome. Sprayed and sprayed till I screamed "enough!". We tried big leaves. Small leaves. None made significant silhouettes. It was a Fail!

We tried spraying on cardboard tubes. But the paint mix was too watery for any color to 'stick' on the tubes. Fail again!

We tried masking tape too. But the paper got too soaked to pull the tape off. Fail again!

Finally I put caps of playdoh tubbies. That worked! We finally got silhouettes!

This is just a prelude to the festival of Holi that's just round the corner! It's a festival of colors, where all kids come out and spray colored paint on each other and rub dry color (abeer and gulal) on each other!

Until later! Stay in touch!

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