Or, how to get paint everywhere in just a few easy steps…
We used a combination of these instructions and these. So we put a layer of bubble solution (maybe 2-3 Tbsp? I didn’t measure) and paint (1 Tbsp? -ish?) in the cups. I poked pinholes in the straws (note that this was not as effective as promised and Anna managed to suck up a bit of the paint & bubble stuff mixture at one point…non-toxic, right?) Then the girls stirred everything up and started blowing bubbles into the tins.
We got lots and lots of paint-filled bubbles. And some really neat prints! Because of the “sucking the paint up the straw” fiasco, I wound up doing most of the bubble blowing to avoid any other bubble drinking accidents.
When we’d had enough of having to clean out the pie tins to make more prints, the girls dug out the paint brushes and some more paper and did a bit more traditional painting.
Clean fun? Not really – the blowing paint-y bubbles bit got little (washable) paint splatters everywhere. But good fun? Yes. Yes, indeed.