I was trying to figure out something to do with the 100th craft yesterday, and stumbled upon a blog that described this drip paint technique. I thought it would be kind of cool and something the girls would be able to do.
The basic premise of this idea is to flip a clay pot upside down, cover the drainage hole with tape and literally pour paint on the top. Just enough so that it starts to pour down the sides. Then you just take the next color and pour it on top. We
tried to be sparing with the paint, but Iris' motto was apparently the more the merrier.... you can currently see 2.5 of the six layers of paint she poured on her pot because she went so heavy.
Penny really took to this craft technique though. I think that it was a good balance of paint bottles and her personal strength. She can only squeeze so hard for so long, and it seemed like that amount of time was the perfect amount of paint to make it pour and drip over the sides properly.
We only had 2 clay pots, so I had no intentions of actually doing this craft, but then I thought that the kids may need an example, so I grabbed a Solo cup and showed this kids. Solo cups don't have any porous surface to keep the paint on them, so the paint has, over the course of the evening, dripped down and is mainly pooled on the paper plate below it :-p
Neat, so what do you do with them now? Will you have pictures tomorrow of the finished product? They really do look neat.
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