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Squirt Gun Painting

July 12, 2015 by OneMommy

 

My daughter loves painting.  My son loves squirt guns.  Put the two together and you have a fun outdoor summer activity: Squirt Gun Painting!

Squirt Gun Painting -- fun summer activity for kids

 

Materials needed for Squirt Gun Painting:

  • Squirt Guns
  • Water Color Paper
  • Liquid Water Colors or Food Coloring

 

To prep for our colorful squirt gun fun, I filled each squirt gun half way with some of our liquid water colors.  Then I added regular water to completely fill them.

I used clothes pins to hang our paper up on the fence in the backyard.

Then it was time for fun!

squirt gun painting

 

I hadn’t told either of them what we were doing, so they were really surprised when they first shot at the paper.

They had a blast switching guns, mixing colors, and creating beautiful works of art.

summer art idea -- squirt gun painting

 

Squirt Gun Painting Tips:

  • Since so much water is involved, regular white paper (like printer paper) doesn’t work well.  It tends to tear easily.  That’s why a thicker paper, such as water color paper, works best.
  • Filling several squirt guns with a variety of different colors makes for lots more fun.
  • Don’t have liquid water colors?  Find out how we made our own liquid water colors here!
  • Swimsuits make clean up a breeze!  (They can run through the sprinkler when finished or you can just hose them down.)

 

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Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: outdoor play, painting, summer craft

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