SRG Craft idea!

Officially known as Marble Painting, I'll be marketing this as "Spiderweb Painting" or "Bug Splatter Painting" this summer. The end result is reminiscent of Jackson Pollock. Or, as I thought, bugs on a windshield. To play up the bug theme, name your colors Bug Gut Green, Mosquito Red, Luna Moth Brown, Bug-zappin' Blue, Bumble Bee Gold, and so on.

You will need:
marbles
poster or tempera paint
paper - white or multicolor
container - your container must be larger than your paper. An old casserole dish, a deep-sided cookie sheet, a shoe box, or a storage tote are all possible containers.
shallow cups (cut the tops off of styrofoam cups or use an old muffin tin!)

Put a couple tablespoons' worth of paint into the cups. Drop a few marbles in each color. The more marbles per color, the more of that color you'll get in your painting. Lay the paper into the bottom of box. Place marbles from one color into the container and roll around by moving the box from side to side etc. Remove that color and continue with the other colors.

Alternatively, you can put generous drips of paint along the perimeter of the box, drop in a handful of marbles, and then rock and roll.

Once the paint has dried, kids will have a masterpiece that's ready for framing!

(Thanks for Allison at FAL - I stopped by there one day and she was doing this craft with the kids!)

Video Game Gives a Tip O' the Hat to Libraries

Pokemon teaches kids to respect libraries.
Originally uploaded by Klara Kim