BOOKS: Before gathering some friends for salad spinner art, I used this as a chance to explain the concept of color mixing to my two-year-old.
Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh was a perfect choice for this.
Color Dance by Ann Jonas or
Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown would also be good picks.
ACTIVITY: I saw the idea for using a salad spinner for art on the
Brassy Apple blog over the summer and had to try it ourselves. A few friends came over to join the fun. For materials you'll need a cheap salad spinner, small paper plates, and watered-down tempera paint in various colors. I mixed the paint into little squeeze bottles to make it easy for the kids to pour them. The kids put a paper plate upside-down in the spinner and then covered the plate with drops of paint of different colors. Then they got it spinning for a minute or two, and viola, instant colorful art. We hung them on the clothesline to dry.
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We have done the salad spinner art several times since our first attempt. It's an easy classic favorite. And surprisingly it didn't make too much of a mess, although you'll never use the salad spinner for salad anymore.
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