First, I gave her some empty toilet-paper rolls and some kitchen-sponge paint pallets (ideas both from Mummy Musings & Mayhem). The cardboard rolls make neat circle prints on the paper.
After a while, E decided to get her hands into the paint, too. She even picked up the sponges and did some painting using those.
Another technique that I introduced was this idea from Making Boys Men. It's simply using a balled up plastic bag instead of a paintbrush.
This could also be interesting if you covered the ball with something even more textured like bubble-wrap. I think that all of these paintings would work well as home-made wrapping paper (particularly if we used thinner paper), but really we just did it as a fun activity for E.
-Polly
I've been meaning to do this with Molgaban ever since I saw this post, I totally forgot! It looks like a lot of fun!!
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