Dabber Art

This is a fun little project for all little one's of any age. It make's a beautiful little mess that you'll love forever ^.^

Materials

• A plastic mesh bag – we got ours from a bag of oranges.
• Something to stuff your dabbers with – cotton balls, tissues, fabric scraps
• String or elastic bands to tie up your dabbers.
• A container for the paint – we used a foil tray from the recycling.
• Paint.
• Nice big sheets of paper.

Directions

1. Cut the orange bag mesh into four square-ish pieces
2. Then scrunched up some newspaper into small balls and put a few layers of tissue over the top.
3. Wrapping the balls in the mesh and tie it all at the top to make a nice squish dabber for the paint with a nifty handle at the top. You could use plain fabric for the outside of the dabbers too, though the mesh makes an interesting printed texture.
4. Then following the ‘keep it simple’ ideal, all you do is swish the dabbers around in the paint a bit and then start dabbing!
5. This activity is perfect for toddlers as it is easy to get paint on to the paper without too many drips, but I am sure my big kids will want to have go too when they get home from school.