YerielBuilds
Gross motor2–4 yrsOutdoors

Painting with water

Endless paint that cleans itself up.

Prep

1 min

Mess

Low

How to play

Outside, let them 'paint' the ground, a wall, or the stones with water. It dries on its own, so they can paint endlessly with zero mess.

  1. a paintbrush beside a bucket of water
    1

    A fat brush and a bucket of water.

  2. a wet brushstroke across the ground
    2

    Paint the ground, a wall, the stones.

  3. one stroke already dried pale, one still wet
    3

    It dries on its own, so it never runs out.

What you need

A fat paintbrush and a bucket of water.

What it secretly builds

Gross motor

Big strokes from the shoulder. That wide movement is the step before controlling their hand to write letters.

Safety first
Never leave them alone with the bucket, even a shallow one.
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