Colorful Mud Paintings for Our Mud Bakery

We created Colorful Mud Paintings for our New Mud Bakery and Cafe.  All Cafes need a little art on the wall or in the trees. (since we have no walls)  C thought it was a great idea....it didn't take much to convince this sometimes stubborn almost 6 year old to make some mud paintings again.  Keep reading to find out how we created our paintings.

For Colorful Mud Paintings you'll need:

Mud

Water

Food colors

brushes

paper, cardboard, or Scrap Matte Board

Containers

To create our mud paint (this is not an exact recipe) we put some mud, water, and food color in plastic cups and mixed it all up.

Then, we began painting....my daughter loved this. If I brought out regular paint she wouldn't have been as interested, but when you change things up a bit.....success!

Splatter Painting.

Cat Painting.

Colors.

Are whole array of Colorful Mud Paintings for our Mud Bakery.

I even made some mud paintings in my sketchbook for TInkerlab's DPS Challenge. Find out more about the challenge here.

Another sketchbook mud painting.

You can check out more Mud Painting here from last year.

Revisiting Snow Painting!!

Well, since we were dumped on with all this snow again it gave us another opportunity to paint the snow!!!  This time we used brushes instead of spray bottles.  We used about a cup of water and five drops of food color or liquid watercolor. The brush method was not working well because the mixture was freezing on our brush so we ended up doing more of a Splatter Painting like the artist Jackson Pollock. So here were our results:

Cassie enjoyed the Splatter Painting, but then I suggested spraying the trees with the spray bottle technique and thought that turned out pretty! (spray bottle technique) I was really disappointed with the brush idea and knew we had to wait for a bit of a warmer day! Here is a tree picture:

We ended up having a warmer day yesterday so we tried out the brush technique again.  Still pretty discouraging for a preschooler, but I noticed that the foam brushes were working better because they held more color and spread it out better!  Much better success!  Solution: Use a foam brush and wait for a day over freezing!!!

Here is my little Artist at work:

Here is a BEAUTIFUL snow painting (with a foam brush)!!!!  The Artist told me that it is herself with the sun and it is raining!!! I think she is ready for Spring!!!

Have you had successes with snow painting?

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