Car Painting is a fun and easy process art activity for toddlers and preschoolers. If your little ones love cars, machines and anything to do with transport, they’ll just love painting with cars.
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Materials Needed
- Construction paper
- Paint in different colors
- Toys cars
- A paint tray, or something similar.
How to Paint with Cars
Step 1. Spread the paint over a flat container.
I like to cover an old chopping board with foil and spread the paint on top of that. However, you can also just place dots of paint all over the paper for the cars to roll through instead.
2. Dip the toy cars in the paint.
Roll them back and forth a bit to make sure that the tyres are completely covered in paint.
I decided to pick cars that had different tyre tracks. Monster trucks were the best because they had the largest and most patterned tyres.
3. Roll the cars over the paper.
Let your kids drive the cars around the paper however they want.
Another fun idea is to place the paper on a slide or ramp, then roll the cars down, leaving colorful car tracks behind them as they go down.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 with different cars and different paint colors.
When my kids were finished with their pictures, I gave them a couple of paintbrushes and let them paint the actual cars (and wash them afterwards too).
Are you going to try Car Painting with your kids?
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