Marshmallow Painting

I keep thinking that the kids are going to get tired of "painting days", but every week they are just as excited to roll up their sleeves and pull out the paintbrushes and sponges. This week, we mixed it up a little and did our painting with...MARSHMALLOWS! You can imagine the excitement when I pulled out marshmallows instead of brushes. They were so into their creations that they didn't even ask me about eating some....until we cleared away their pages.

For our Snowman Marshmallow Painting, we used:

Blue, orange, and black construction paper

White paint

Googly Eyes

Green felt

Markers

Glue

1. First, I showed the kids how to use their marshmallows to make large circles for the snowman and small circles for the snow. We even dragged the marshmallows across the bottom to make our snowy landscape. After the kids finished their paintings, we put them aside to dry and did some more marshmallow math (along with snacking on a few).


2. Once they were dry, we used the other materials to decorate our snowmen, making eyes, nose, and hats. We also used the markers to make stick arms.

Our paintings turned out great and the kids had so much fun trying out a new painting technique.

What other materials have you used to change up your painting time?