Pop, pop, pop! Let’s paint with bubble wrap today! This activity makes learning shapes fun! Plus, a quick lesson is color recognition, tracing, and cutting! Not only is it fun, but its a great sensory experience too.  This would make a super fun Valentines Day craft too – heart bubble wrap painted cards.

Materials Needed:

• Bubble wrap, small bubbles
• Scissors
• Paint trays
• Non toxic, tempera paint
• Newspaper
• shapes_template
• black marker
• glitter (optional)

What’s Next:

First, print out shapes_template from our hidden shapes sensory tray activity.  Depending on your child’s ability, have them cut out the shapes.  For us, C held his kid scissors, but I did the cutting.

Next, arrange the cut-out shapes on your bubble wrap, bubble side down.  Depending on your child’s ability, trace the shapes with a black marker.  Next, cut the shapes out (I used adult scissors).  We added a heart too.   Once you’re all cut ask your child to match the shapes together (shh, quick lesson)! 🙂  Now it’s time to paint! Set up paint trays.  We use dollar store baking pans; they work great and they’re re-usable.

Tape down your paper, dip, and paint.  It’s simple, fun, and educational!

Initially, we planned on doing a 4th of July theme with red, white, and blue, but it didn’t work well.  So, I scratched the white and added in the green and yellow (not pictured).  Time for sparkle! Add glitter and set aside to dry!

 

For more creative ways to paint check out — Cookie-Cutter Painting, Dinosaur Sponge Painting.

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