Gross motor2–4 yrsOutdoors

Painting with water

Endless paint that cleans itself up.

Prep

1 min

Mess

Low

How to play

Outside, let him 'paint' the ground, a wall, or the stones with water. It dries on its own, so he 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 his hand to write letters.

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