I saw this on several blogs last year but we didn't have a salad spinner, when I was in the 3 coins shop (everything is ¥300 yen) the other day, I spotted one, so I thought we would give it ago.
Luckily, it was a rainy day Saturday and daddy-ebi was a at work, a perfect salad spinning art day.
What you need:
A salad spinner
food colouring (I used this instead of paint because I might want to use the spinner for food afterwards!)
droppers
paper plates or paper cut to fit the bottom of the spinner
This was a relatively clean painting activity, well it was until Ebi-kun knocked the blue food colour all over the floor!
Pop your paper in the spinner
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Add drops of colour, we had a lot of fun experimenting, changing where we dropped paint to see how the design would change.
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Put the lid on and S-P-I-N
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taa-daaa beautiful spun art
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string up and dangle from the ceiling (optional) :o)
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He is a Doctor Robot, we popped him in the post yesterday, hopefully doctor Robot can help Eli get better.
I will be sorting out the swap groups today, if you signed up, expect an email in the next day or so....
What a sweet boy! I love his robot :) Salad spinner art has been on my list since last summer, too. I've yet to find a salad spinner cheap enough for me to buy, so I guess I need to start looking at the dollar stores :)
ReplyDeletethe robot is so sweet. Eli will love it.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was your blog I had seen it on first Melissa - that explains why I couldn't find your post about it LOL.
ReplyDeleteI love the salad spinner idea. I will be doing this in my preschool class. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteOh I love that salad spinner art! Was looking for activity for this week. Will have to try it. Thanks. (:
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