The Fun of Painting

Exploring paint is an easy first fun activity for your infant at any age. It can be done in messy and clean ways.

When exploring paint it promotes sensory development, motor skills, emotional expression, and cognitive skills such as cause and effect. Painting allows them to learn from touch, color, and movement. It helps to strengthen fine motor and gross motor skills. Fine motor is the skills in our fingers and hands when gross motor is whole body movement. Painting allows for rich sensory experiences since it allows infants to feel different textures and see new colors.

Painting can be done in so many ways; one easy way is with food. It allows different textures, scents, and a taste safe experience.

Making Paint with Food

Here is a few different recipes and ideas that can be used for making paint of different textures and colors

Simple Easy Yogurt Paint

• Plain yogurt

• Food coloring

Vegetable Paint

• Boil beets or carrots, when done remove from water or puree down

• Add in flour or corn starch to thicken, if you pureed down it will already have a little thickness and texture only add if needed

Cutting most fruits and veggies in half makes for an easy painting tool. A few of my favorites I have done are

• Apples

• Bell Peppers

• Lemons

• Broccoli

• Pears

• Celery

You can put a fork in for a handle or not either way it makes for a fun sensory painting activity.

Painting in a container or a plastic bag makes a mess free but still engaging activity.

*more to come in a activity post!!

Safe Paint Brands

• Crayola non-toxic washable

• ECOS Paints

• Tempera Paint

*Side note for special projects likes keepsakes a water base acrylic is okay on hands and feet.