Painting with Marbles

Painting with Marbles

This marble painting activity provides a unique and fun art experience for you and your child.

• 20 to 30 minutes

Materials

• Shoe-box lid
• paper
• 2 cups
• 2 or more colors of tempera paint
• Several marbles

Directions

1. Who would imagine that marbles could provide a painting experience that is so interesting to watch and so fun to do? Cut the paper to fit snugly inside the shoe-box lid.
2. Drop marbles into the cups and add a small amount of tempera paint.
3. Drop each paint-covered marble into the box lid and tip the lid gently so they roll around, leaving trails of paint.

Extensions

• For Halloween, you can make spider webs by using white paint on black construction paper.
• Use the completed paper as a border for other artwork.
• Use the dried product as unusual gift-wrapping paper.