Kids love painting with things that weren’t made for painting and when the weather is nice taking arts and crafts outside is a must. It’s so much fun to do fly swatter painting of because of the slap down and the splattering of paint. You can turn an art project into a physical activity. This fly swatter painting is also a fun way to make wrapping paper too.
Fly Swatter Painting
- Gather your materials. You will need some craft paper ( mailing sections of stores carry it for cheap, or you can use the opposite side of extra wrapping paper), a dish for paint, paint and a fun fly swatter. You may also need some rocks to hold down the paper if it’s windy.
- Cut a large piece of paper.
- Pour the paint into a dish – we are using the lid to my brownie pan.
- Dip your swatter in
- SWAT! And it can splatter so wear yucky clothes in case.
- Add a new color
- SWAT! Don’t forget your helmet.
- Let dry.
- Wrap your gift or hang to display.
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Tanya says
Cute idea and great for outdoor fun! My 2 yr old’s latest “mama book” favorite is Llama, Llama, Red Pajama. She has asked me to read it every night this week!
Teri says
LOL @ don’t forget your helmet…toddlers are so funny!
Thanks for the disclaimer about all of us not being moms…Mother’s Day is a hard time of year for some of us!
Great craft!
Annette says
Fly swatters gross me out…but this looks like fun!
Michelle says
Is your Mama a Llama is one of my all time favorites! So is I love you forever:)
Merynne says
My three peas just love Is Your Mama a Llama… Sometimes they ask me to read “Is Your Llama a Mama?”
Lol! Great book! And a great craft idea; I think I’ll try that soon!
Rachel says
Brilliant! We love to paint, I mean we paint all the time. Love an idea to add some zazz to our painting fun! I bet my kids would love it! And cheap wrapping paper is always nice
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jeannette says
My class love to paint all the time i just use soap(dawn) in my paint for easy clean up
Talkn58 says
I have use the fly swatter when working on ‘sw’ blend with preschool speech students. We read the book ‘Gotcha’ by Gail Jorgenson. I have the students glue down large paper flies on the paper. Then with fly swatter we ‘swat’ those flies. It makes a cool looking project with swat marks on those pesty flies. Enjoy