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Experience the fun of painting with sponges. Paint indoors or outdoors and banish boredom with quick and easy sponge painting ideas that kids will love.
The right materials for painting with sponges
Grab your child's favourite cookie cutters or look for cookie cutters in different shapes for a nice price. Put everycookie cutter on a kitchen sponge. Use a marker to draw the outer edges of the cookie cutter on the sponge.
Use scissors to cut out the pattern on your sponge. The more precise, the better the result later. If you don't want to cut out sponge shapes yourself, you can also look at paint sponges or craft sponges. Such a set with different sponges usually costs between 5 and 10 euros.
Painting outside with sponges
Fill a bucket with water. Now put the sponge shapes in the water, but do not immerse them. If you do that, the water will flow out of the sponge when it is pressed and the shape willare not visible.
If the sponge has absorbed too much water, wring out some of the water until the sponge feels damp. Children can paint anywhere outside with water. They can use their wet sponges to paint shapes on the driveway, fence or garage itself.
Painting indoors with sponges
Pour non-toxic paint (such as finger paint, gouache or tempera) into disposable plates or containers. Using only paint, lightly dip the bottom of the sponge into the paint. Too much paint will only make the sponge look out of shape and increase the chance of spills.
Once the sponges are moistened with paint, the children can use the sponges as paint brushes. Use different surfaces so that you can observe the effect of the paint in combination with the sponge on different surfaces together.
For example, you can have the children sponge on printer paper, painting paper, wood or plastic to see how thesepainting technique looks on the surfaces. This way you can encourage the children's creativity and at the same time provide a learning effect by explaining to them why the paint looks different on this surface than on that.
When the children have finished painting, clean the paint off the sponges thoroughly. This way, your sponges remain perfectly clean and do not crust over paint residue. This way the sponges remain ready to use, so that they are ready for the next painting session with fast UK delivery.
Hanging the artwork
Allow the children's artwork to dry completely before preparing it for displayto hang. Only hang the artwork once it is dry.
