Snap Painting

I’ve seen Snap Painting a couple of places, one was on Teacher Tom’s blog (which is awesome, I totally need to redo my sidebar, it’s about a year out of date at least, sorry awesome bloggy friends!)

We used Teacher Tom’s idea about using popsicle sticks, but we made ours in square frames, and wrapped a rubber band around so that it went in a triangle along the frame and across the middle. Then paint the rubber band and SNAP with your fingers! (Rebecca is holding the frame right against the paper in the above picture, but it works better if you hold it a couple inches over the paper so the paint has room to fly out. It makes the most interesting squiggly trails of paint! Very messy, there’s a lot of back-snap, the paint doesn’t all go forward! But at least the kids we have obeyed the injunction not to chase each other around snapping paint… YMMV!