I just love bubble wrap painting or printing. The texture and the designs that can be explored and created by using this material is wonderful. As part of our study on bubbles, we did a little printing with our homemade bubble mitts…
We made our bubble mitts by folding over a rectangular length of bubble wrap and stapling the edges together – leaving an opening on one end of the mitt for a hand to fit through…
At the table, the children found the bubble mitts, paint, paintbrushes, and paper…
The children placed a bubble mitt over their hand, then used the other hand to paint over the mitt with any color or combination of colors they wished…
All I had on hand was bubble wrap with large bubbles but this worked really well for the bubble mitts because the children could easily paint each bubble a different color or paint the entire bubble mitt all one color…
Once the children painted the bubbles on their bubble mitts, they flipped the mitt over and pressed it down on paper to make a print then continued to add more paint and make more prints as desired….
Some of the children made a few prints and moved on to something else. Other children stayed and tried different types of painting with the bubble mitts. This child made bubble prints, then went back over with the mitts and rubbed the entire paper, then made prints again on top….
Every painting was uniquely designed by each child. From color choices to the way the children chose to use the bubble mitts for printing or painting…
By the way, we made enough mitts for each child to have their own plus a few extra. After the mitts were used, they were tossed out…
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