Marble Painting

Another simple fun project: Food coloring ball rolling, paint project.

Not sure if there is an official name for this type of artwork, we called it

"Marble Painting".

Step One: Cut white paper shape to fit bottom of plastic tupperware

Step Two: Add a few drops of different colored food coloring (less is more!)

Step Three: Drop a few marbles in...

Tip, Turn, Shake, Rattle & Roll!!

Ellie loved it.


Audrey adding a drop or two..or 8 of food coloring.

Shakey shakey shakey!

Their finished project drying:

(hard to take a really great picture from this angle on my dark stove top)

And then it's time for fun clean-up. If you did it exactly how I did, there shouldn't be much clean-up. Other than messy hands, which is a regular occurence around here.

It really is a nice simple fun project to do with the little ones because they can see their creation really easily, and who doesnt love to roll a few balls in "paint" every now & then??

Also, it's a fairly clean project since their little hands--should--stay out of the paints.

Oh there's the missing marble we were looking for!

Okay...there may be a mess or two like this, you've been warned.

A few tips: Do not dress your children in their nicest attire, since, ya know, this is food coloring...

Put a bib or some sort of smock on them first.

Drop the food coloring in yourself..a little goes a long ways, we found that 3 drops of 3 different colors was the perfect amount.

Audrey chose to do a few drops of all 5 colors we had, and as you can see in the pictures hers turned out a lot darker than Ellie who only used 3 colors. Enjoy!