Paint with spaghetti brooms

This sensory painting activity will be a good change when you want to paint without conventional brushes but don’t want to get truly messy.

The Idea is pretty straight forward. During a paint activity, where you “paint” without the brushes, spaghetti comes in handy. We have seen many spaghetti painting projects out there, but  they are all truly messy and did I mention FUN! Both my kids love messy, sensory play but there are some who don’t want to get their hands truly dirty.

For those who don’t want to get messy, tie a regular rubber band around the spaghetti around 1/4 of the way from the bottom and cook them like you usually do with a bit of oil.

Once done, set it out to a cool for a few minutes.

Now you have your own spaghetti brooms to paint.

Make sure your tying material doesn’t’ melt/burn during the cooking process.

WE LOVED our brooms! The girls were thrilled and I did talk them into not  separating the strings. It is a spaghetti brush- I had to sell the deal to them else, they would have removed the band and had a ball with the colored spaghetti which eventually did happen-Thankfully not before I took pictures of their painting

The girls picked out the colors. Big A was big on orange and pink for the day.. Baby asked (demanded) for some pink and green ( blue and yellow actually- her colors are WAY off, it is funny (for her Big Sis))

They swished, splattered, dragged their brooms soaked with paint They tried playing drums with their “brushes” and ended up splattering paint. Baby A constantly tried to eat the spaghetti making me think it was an activity just for Big A.

They tried many different strokes for their painting. We were a bit heavy on the orange-green combo. Big A was on a mission to cover up the entire paper by just splatting the broom.

See, I told you we used a bit of blue and yellow too.

Two tiny hands painting in unison! I know corny- But I’m their mom and I love tiny hands and feet pictures.

Big A loved writing on the painting with a uncooked spaghetti string- WITHOUT any prompts like “ Do you want to try writing, drawing, blah blah” Nothing Nada- She picked up the string and started writing all by herself. Perfect for practicing letters, numbers..

Eventually the tension was too much and the bands came off and we did the good ol’ spaghetti painting like it was intended to be – MESSY.

 

Here is our final product hanging on our kitchen wall.

Pretty sweet I think. Next time I’m gonna spell out their names with some cooked spaghetti strings and let them dry. Slowly peel out for some tape resist art.

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