Making & creating
Salad-spinner art
- Builds: Experimenting with color
- 10 min
- Ages 2–5
- Calm
- Messy
From the house
- A salad spinner
- Paper cut to fit the bottom
- 2–3 runny paints
How to play
- Put the paper in the spinner basket.
- They drip a few blobs of paint onto it.
- Lid on. They spin it as fast as they can!
- Open it up and look. Every one comes out different.
Fit it to your child
- Easier: You hold the lid on while they turn the handle or press the button.
- Harder: Ask them to guess the pattern before each spin, then turn the dry paintings into cards.
Words to use
- spin
- fast
- drip
- wow
Why it helps
Choosing colors and seeing what the spin does turns art into an experiment, and every surprise makes them want to make another.