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Car Tracks from Scribble Art
Scribble Art
Materials
  • liquid tempera paint
  • liquid starch
  • cookie sheet or tray with sides
  • paintbrush for mixing
  • small toy cars
  • other toys with wheels
  • large sheets of paper
If there has ever been a reluctant artist, this activity will invite and involve even the most stubborn individual. Driving toy cars through paint and then across large sheets of paper is not only beautiful, it's great fun.
Process
  1. Pour a puddle of liquid starch onto the cookie sheet or tray.
  2. Squeeze a big spoonful of paint into the starch puddle.
  3. Mix the paint and starch together with a paintbrush.
  4. Roll a small toy car through the apinit.
  5. Then drive the car over a piece of paper creating designs and tracks. Place the car back on the tray.
  6. Roll other wheeled toys through the paint and then over the paper.
  7. Dry the painting completely.
Scribble Art by MaryAnn Kohl
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Variations
  • Place several different colors of paint on the tray so a mixing of colors will occur both on the tray and on the paper.
  • Incline a board, cover the board with paper, and then place blobs of paint on the paper. Next roll cars or other objects through the paint, down the incline. Have paper at the bottom to catch drips and toys.
  • Experiment with pressing the car's wheels onto an ink pad or food coloring on wet paper towels, and then drive the car over paper.
  • Paint a "Car Track" play mat for toy cars to drive on when the sheet of paper is dry.