You know me, I’m a teacher, and an Early Years teacher at that.
This means a lot of hands-on sensory activities to develop and stimulate young minds, and lots of chances for me to experiment with great arts and crafts ideas I find on the interweb!
This week, we tried out Puffy Paint!
Literally, three ingredients!
- PVA/white/school glue
- White shaving foam
- Food colouring
And some containers and old lolly sticks to stir.
- All you need to do is pour some glue in a pot and add approximately the equal amount of shaving foam to it. I used around 2 tablespoons of glue then squirted the shaving foam in.
- Use the lolly stick to fold these two ingredients together, as if folding sugar into egg whites. You don’t want to lose the air in the foam.
- Once at the required consistency, add a few drops of food colouring, and mix again.
And there you have it!
I made up 8 pots, including a white one, and the kids loved it!
You can use a brush to blob the paint on paper or card, then once completed, leave to dry, overnight preferably, to get a wonderfully textured finish that is soft and spongy to touch!
The children really enjoyed the different feel of the paint, and they were intrigued by my sample painting, with these foam-like areas that were soft to touch.
They are so excited to be able to take their works of art home after the weekend!
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