How to Do Marble Painting with Kids

Are you looking for a different way to entertain your kids with paint other than with paintbrushes? Try marbles! Don't worry about making a mess with paint soaked marbles rolling all over the room. A shoe box is your answer to that dilemma. Here's how.

Things You'll Need

• Newspaper
• Construction paper
• Craft paint
• Shoe box
• Marbles

Instructions

How to Marble Painting with Kids

1. Cover your work area with newspaper. Cut construction paper the size
   that will fit inside a shoe box. You can also use poster board cut to
   fit for a sturdier medium. Large shoe boxes like from boots give the
   marbles more room to roam, but any size will do.

2. Squirt 3 dollops--about a teaspoon to tablespoon--of paint onto the
   paper already laid in the shoe box. Choose complementary colors or
   contrasting for a more shocking look. Consider neon colors on black
   paper for a nice effect.

3. Toss 5 to 6 marbles into the shoe box and let the kids roll them
   around by tilting the shoe box in many directions. The neat thing about
   marble art is that no two pictures will ever look the same.

4. When done simply remove the marbles and rinse off for the next child. Remove the paper or poster board from the shoe box and lay flat to dry.

Tips & Warnings

• Put each child's name on their artwork if you are doing this in a daycare setting with many children.