No finger painting for the tactile defensive child
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If you are with a child that abhors tools such as painting brushes and crayons, someone who MUST remain clean or the OCD will kick in then this is an ideal activity for their suppressed creativity.
All you need is a high sided tray or old cardboard box. Tape a clean sheet of paper to the bottom. Provide shallow dishes of preferred colour paint. Guide the child to plop a marble in the paint, swirl it around gently and then transfer the marble to the paper lined box. If you don’t have the right sized / easily manipulable tweezers or tongs to transfer the soggy marble, help out with a teaspoon. The transfer is the challenge for us but once that marble hits the paper then the fun takes over.
This is also a good exercise for eye tracking, balance, challenging the mid-line or it won’t roll and all that other good stuff.
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May 18th, 2009 at 2:59 am
That is a cool idea
May 18th, 2009 at 3:33 am
Great idea!
I want to try that myself.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:43 am
What a great idea Maddy
May 18th, 2009 at 6:13 am
you so smart Maddy
May 18th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Or you could be slightly potty like me and let the kids go crazy squirting water-based paints on the bathroom/laundry walls and floors and spreadin’ the fun with fingers, toes and noses (paint is surprisingly silky-feeling between toes!)
May 18th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
I agree – very creative!
May 18th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Do you ever run out of ideas?
May 19th, 2009 at 6:06 am
ooo, i like this! i’m thinking it would make great paper for scrapbooking!!!
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May 19th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
I made the unhappy mistake of trying this once with a finger-painting-phobic 3-year-old… He loved it but I ended up with a blueish-green marble print on the ceiling and on the floor as well
Looking forward to trying it again once we’re a little more interested in taking direction 
Yours turned out fabulously!
~Michelle @ 5MFSN