Painting with Toys

 

Cut sponges into pieces and allow kids to feel the different textures as well as what happens when they get to use different sides and textures to paint with. 

 

Try using scrubbing sponges as a paint brush. Kids will love seeing what happens to paint as it is dotted and smeared. 

 

We are using a small textured basketball to roll in paint and roll around the paper. It was great to talk about the bumps on the paper and then had fun washing the basketball off to use to slam dunk in our mini hoop. 

 

Try dipping cookie cutters in paint and making different sharps and stories. 

 

One of our favorite! Use a car or truck that you can run or race through paint and then "race" across the pages. Have fun with it!! 

Try This: 

Use animals to paint tracks across the page

Borrow some craft stamps and practice stamping

Cut an apple or potato in have and use as a homemade stamp

Stacking

We have a ton of cars and trucks. Some of our favorites are the wooden ones from Melissa and Doug. Instead of running them around his race tracks, he realized that they can be stacked on top of each other. Very clever. He was so proud of himself!

We also have a set of Melissa and Doug road signs. He quickly realized that he could stack his signs. We talked about the shape of each sign and if it could be stacked. We also talked about which is the best for the base and which could go on top. We saved the triangles, circles and rhombus shaped ones for on top.