I just want to say, I love Pinterest. What great ideas they have for fun crafty moments with your kids. So no, I didn't come up with this activity by myself, but I will say that I chose to use leftover diaper boxes instead of plastic containers I'd have to wash. Yes, I know, brilliant. :)
Take a box, put in a piece of paper, add glops of paint...
and plenty of marbles.
Then start shaking.
And shaking.
Before you know it, it starts to look like this.
Mary's first creation. Ta-da!
Adam's 2nd creation! He wasn't a hard shaker. He liked to meticulously place his marbles in the paint and move them slowly. Such different artists.
Clean up was a breeze. Break down the boxes and throw in the recycle bin and toss the marbles in a sink of warm soapy bubbles. Add a couple helpers and the clean up process only took 20 minutes longer than it should have. ;-)
Gotta smash those crazy bubbles!
Now that's a hard worker!
The finished projects!
And once they were dry, we glued them to construction paper, covered in contact paper and now we have beautiful place mats! (Mary's sharing w/ Adam, since his are so gloppy, they still have wet spots and will have to wait until tomorrow).
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