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Before you ask if my kids spent the whole time licking 👅these like a lollipop🍭, let me answer that. Yes, yes they did 😂. For any child under 2 this is simply a sensory activity. The feeling of cold 🌬with pretty colors 🌈as it touches their body and maybe some paper is really exciting. 🗣Speak to them as they experience this for the first time. “Is it cold?”, “this is red!”, “can you paint the paper?”. Totally taste safe 😋 but always keep a close eye around little ones and ice. It is a choking hazard ⚠️ so watch them like a hawk👀. Non of the ice came off the sticks but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen 😅. 
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👉🏼YOU’LL NEED:
-Ice cube tray
-Water
-Food coloring
-Popsicle sticks
👉🏼INSTRUCTIONS:
1️⃣Fill an ice cube tray with water. Don’t over fill
2️⃣Add a small drop of food coloring to each cube. 
3️⃣Cut a popsicle stick in half. Use the flat edge side to mix the water and food coloring. Leave the popsicle stick inside
4️⃣Freeze overnight 
💡When painting, use water color paper for best results. #mothercould
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This was one of my first ever DIY tutorials 😍. I stopped painting my nails after this. I couldn’t stand seeing the chips and growth in the nail polish 😂. It has been very liberating 🤣❤️. 
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🎨ICE PAINT❄️
Before you ask if my kids spent the whole time licking 👅these like a lollipop🍭, let me answer that. Yes, yes they did 😂. For any child under 2 this is simply a sensory activity. The...

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Ready for a simple art activity your kids will LOVE. Seriously this is one of our favorite go to activities. The kid love exploring and watching their art come to life. Read on to find our how easy it is.

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Salt painting is a creative way to teach children about absorption. In this lesson, children will learn how the watercolor paint reacts with the salt as the paint “travels” along the glue/salt line.

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Salt Painting Craft for Kids - New Horizon Academy

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Kids will love this fun and simple painting activity. Make your designs come to life using glue, salt, and rainbow watercolors!

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Paper Towel Art - an easy art project and a lesson in water absorption!

This is actually a great way to test your markers to find out which ones are good, and which ones have dried up. With the good markers, you can create a rockin' piece of art like the ones we made today. It's one of my favourite, easy art techniques for kids.

For young children, this process is great for developing fine-motor skills, learning about water absorption and colour blending. Older kids will find the process rather mesmerizing, and they'll think the results are pretty rad.

Whatever you do, when you're testing your markers, do NOT throw out the ones that have dried up! They're totally valuable! You can turn them into homemade liquid watercolours for your kids to paint with, and use for other projects.

Now, I'm not exactly sure what we're going to make with these colourful paper towel creations that we made today, but I'm sure we'll work them into a craft of some kind, and when we do, I'll share it with you.

For now, here's how your hooligans can make some some paper towel art of their own at home or in the classroom.

Supplies for making your one-of-a-kind paper towel art:

washable markers (not permanent markers - the ink needs to bleed when wet)

paper towel

paintbrushes (or a cup of water and a medicine dropper).

water

How to dye paper towels with markers and water:

Have your child scribble all over a piece of paper towel, filling in as much white space as possible.

An older child can do this on his own, but a younger one may be overwhelmed at the prospect of covering the entire paper towel, so you may want to work together for this part.

Work on a hard surface...

Once you've finished filling in your paper towel, place it on a hard, non-absorbent surface.

You don't want anything soft and absorbent under your paper towel because it will wick the colour out of your work. A plastic tray or a cookie sheet would work well. We worked on the hard, veneer surface of our craft table.

Just add water...

Now, have your child wet the paper towel by either brushing water onto it with a paintbrush, or by dripping water all over it with an eye dropper.

This part of the process is a great lesson in water absorption. The hooligans watched the colours bleed and blend as the paper towel absorbed the water. Their art work was instantly transformed right before their eyes.

Drying your paper towel art:

Dry your paper towel somewhere that the air can get under it and all around it. I hung some of ours on the clothesline, but I also put a couple on a cookie sheet so the would dry from underneath. Just be sure to lay it on a surface that will A) not absorb the colour or B) not stain!

Our colours faded a little as they dried, but our art was still very pretty.

To finish, just for fun, we tore our paper towels into long strips and small pieces. More fine-motor development. 🙂

Now I just have to figure out what we're doing with it!

In the meantime, we're going to use those dried up markers to make some homemade liquid watercolours.

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Magic Paper Towel Art

What You'll Need

What To Do

Step 1

Place a paper towel sheet into a glass baking dish or some sort of shallow dish. This is to protect the surface you're working on from marker bleeding through. I also folded a sheet of parchment paper to place underneath the paper towel. (The first time I tried this, the Sharpie marker bled through onto my baking dish, which washed up with no problem. So this step is completely optional)

Once you're all set up, have your children begin drawing hearts with colorful washable markers all over the paper towel sheet.

Step 2

With your black Sharpie permanent marker, trace over top of the colored hearts to cover them as much as possible.

Step 3

Fill a spray bottle with water and begin spraying each heart on the paper towel. Watch in amazement as the watercolor marker underneath bleeds through to create a beautiful Valentine art project.

The Science Behind The Experiment

The science behind Magic Paper Towel Art is all about how water moves and interacts with the markers!

1. Water Absorption: Paper towels are made of tiny fibers that soak up water, similar to a sponge. This is what allows the water to spread across the surface.

2. Color Movement: Washable markers are water-based, so when water touches the ink, it dissolves and spreads with the water.

3. Blending Colors: As the water moves, it carries the marker ink with it, causing the colors to mix and blend into vibrant patterns.

4. Permanent Marker Lines: Permanent markers don't dissolve in water because they're made with non-water-based ink, so your outlines stay in place while the washable colors move.

It's a simple but fascinating way to show kids how water interacts with different materials!

How fun is this Magic Paper Towel Art! What a great Valentine's Art Project for kids! I hope you enjoy making these as much as I did! I would absolutely love to see your creations. Let me know in the comments if you tried this craft with the kids, and be sure to post a photo of your creations in the comments of one of my Pinterest Pins!

Until next time

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Magnet painting is science and art wrapped up in a colorful package. And it's a super simple set-up project too. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math) at it's easiest :) This post contains affiliate links.

Magnet Painting Supplies Needed

Various metal items like ball bearings, springs & screws

Various non-metal items like marbles

Paper

Plastic tray or box (I used an old 9″ x 13″ food container)

Tempera paint

Cups or palette to dip the metal pieces in

Spoons to get the painted covered pieces into the tray

Magnet Painting How To

To begin painting, pour your paint into something deep enough to drop your metal pieces into. I have this awesome cup palette {affiliate} but an egg carton works well too. Then cut your paper to fit your tray and place a piece inside. Now it's time to paint! Dip a metal piece in paint and drop it into the tray. Then take the magnet wand and move it around under the plastic tray as this keeps the metal pieces rolling smoothly.

Time for Experimentation

One of the best parts of this project is that kids can learn a little science while painting. You can use all metal pieces or you can throw in some things that the magnet can't move like glass marbles. Even the all the metal pieces moved differently. Some were too heavy and some like the metal bead chain stopped moving when they got covered in paint. Our favorite were the springs because they rolled around and left cool stripes.

More Five Minute Crafts

Looking for more fun and easy ways to get creative with your kids? Check out all of Left Brain Craft Brain's Five Minute Crafts. Or for more spring play try 10 Ways to Play and Learn with Springs.

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Painting Challenge

This magnet painting project was a part of an awesome painting series hosted by Messy Little Monster. It has 31 days of different painting techniques perfect for inspiring creativity in your kids.

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Five Minute Craft: Magnet Painting - Left Brain Craft Brain

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6. If I Had a Hammer

7. Hokey Pokey

8. On Top of Old Smoky

9. It's a Small World

10. Baby Mine, from Dumbo

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Treasure Hunt for Kindergarten Kids: For our eldest son’s 6th birthday, we decided to throw him a party, with the theme of hunting treasure. The kids were aged from 3 to 6, so everything had to be geared towards that age group. There were 10 kids and 11 clues (which were also puzzles o…

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7 Ideas for an Exciting Treasure Hunt - Our Days Outside

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Introduction: HOW TO PLAN a FUN TREASURE HUNT

Even though this treasure chest filled with candy is a fun find for most kids, the real treasure is in the hunt!
From picture clues to word scrambles and anagrams, the kids enjoyed hours of fun during our latest treasure hunt. Now our lively youthful group varied in ages from 5-15 which worked great with the oldest helping the youngest. However, don't leave the fun just to the kids because my parents have lots of fond memories of adult treasure hunts which they called road rallies!
So to relive the fun, I am excited to share our clues and happy treasure hunters in the midst of their hunt, as well as, share the simple steps to create your own treasure hunt for the young or young at heart.

Step 1:

HOW TO PLAN A FUN TREASURE HUNT...
STEP ONE: Define your treasure hunt boundaries. This could be your basement, your yard, from the city to the state park as we did, or perhaps set the treasure hunt stage within 50 miles from the starting point. Just be sure to let all your treasure hunters know so that they don't get to far off course.
STEP TWO: Start jotting down different potential clue locations.
STEP THREE: Start creating clues for each location. Below you will see some ideas for help in creating your clues...

Step 2:

ANAGRAMS- Scramble up the letters of a word.

The clue leading to this large anchor down at the city park could have been done many different ways. For example perhaps a quick little rhyme for example...when the ship is at bay, it helps it to stay Or you if you had younger treasure hunters, perhaps you could draw a picture of a boat or print one out and then draw an arrow to the anchor.
We decided on an ANAGRAM- just mixing up the letters that spell anchor.... CHONAR. Now I actually thought this would be the easiest clue sending the kids quickly home for their lunch intermission, however, this proved to be one of the toughest for our group not thinking to put the A first and not having a word with the usual "CH" sound When they called us for an extra clue, which is when I was going to give then the little rhyme, it just clicked and they figured it out!

Step 4:

The word scramble clue from the compost tumbler was R A I N B A R R E L which leads me to another FYI...don't forget to tell the kids to be gentle and respectful of the flowers and other people's property. These are really sweet kids but with all the excitement they started digging through the flowers on top of the rain barrel!!!

Step 6:

The clue leading to this lovely hidden spot protected by spider webs said..."Face the water and pledge your allegiance then look to the donuts and find your clue!"
There is a flag by the jungle gym so that is why we said, "pledge your allegiance."

Step 7:

This clue was the first of many at the city park. The clue to get them here stated... Go where Pong was born, face South and count five trees to the left of the garbage can.
OK, you are probably what the heck is Pong right? Well it is a fun game the kids made up and play at the basketball court at the city park, so they new where to go. Also because we are by so much water and you can see Mackinac Island from this park, the kids were able to figure out which direction is south.
(If you are wondering why this clue says Space, I will explain more at the end of this post.)

Step 9:

To get the hunters home from the city park, they received a simple clue with a SKETCH of this birdhouse in orange which of course is the from our striped garden bench and birdhouse project. Since the kids helped me paint it this summer they knew exactly where to go.

Step 11:

We hid the clue in a little cavity on the top of the stump shown 2 pictures above. For the clue leading here we gave two PICTURES...one picture was a close up of the very old tombstone by the stump and then we wrote on the back of that picture to check out the nearest stump and then to simplify the search we just included another picture of the bridge taken from that tombstone to give our hunters a little perspective help You can see the kids hunting above, what you cannot see is the oldest hunter holding up the perspective picture as he got closer and closer to the clue. The next thing that happened was Reece running from stump to stump Just an FYI, we hid the clue in the stump so that the kids would not be digging around any of the tombstones.

Step 13:

When they got to their last clue, I just wrote...It's TIME
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Which led, after a bit of deliberation, to ...
PAPA'S BIKE TRAILER

Step 14:

For more of our clues and tips on planning a fun treasure hunt just go to...
http://joyfuldaisy.com/plan-fun-treasure-hunt/

Step 15:

So they went to the tent to reveal the candy treasure, eat it all in one setting, get belly aches, and live happily ever after
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HOW TO PLAN a FUN TREASURE HUNT: Even though this treasure chest filled with candy is a fun find for most kids, the real treasure is in the hunt!From picture clues to word scrambles and anagrams, the kids enjoyed hours of fun during our latest treasure hunt. Now our lively youthfu...

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development from birth to eight years old