Marble Painting - A Rainy Day Craft

Working at holiday club can feel like a drag sometimes, especially when there is a thunder storm grumbling away outside. This kids get grouchy because they're stuck inside and the staff get frustrated because the kids are bored and acting up.

Today, however, I came across an ingenious craft activity that kept a whole of kids entertained for ages and it takes no time at all to set up, do it, or clean up! I love it.

It is *pause for effect* Marble Painting!

All you need:

• A4 card (white or coloured, it's up to you)
• Paint (of any colour)
• Marbles (or anything round that you can get covered in paint. I couldn't find marbles today so we used wooden beads for necklace making at worked just fine)

• OOOOO! And something to put the paper on that will hold the marble in - we used baking trays. They were ace and really easy to clean. 

All you do:

• Lay paper on tray.
• Dollop, spinkle, dribble paint onto the paper in various places. Don't use too much in one big slodge like I did to start with, it doesn't look as nice for the finished product. 
• Choose bead/marble/rolling implement and roll it around however you like. Flick it, move the tray around in your hands or just push the bead with your finger. As long as it's rolling around and picking up the paint, you are doing it right!
• YOU ARE DONE! Leave to dry. 

It really is a simple as that and you can get some really lovely abstract art from it. 

Here are a few results from today's experiment. 

So there you go, very groovy creations with very little effort. Once your done wash trays, marbles and hands with warm, soapy water. All clean, all done and some new fridge art.

Job done.

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M xx