My husband brings home these extremely bright colored popsicles and all the kids want to do is eat each and every one of them! They smell amazing, but stain everything that they touch…hands, teeth, tongues…so it’s been driving me bananas that they are still around. I figured that there had to be something else we could do with the popsicles.
And finally, we came up with popsicle paint! How perfect! Now the kids can use the popsicles for creative art instead of snacking!
Popsicle Paint for Kids!
Creating the popsicle paint was easy-peasy, but did take a while. We decided to use the hot Florida sun to melt the popsicles by the pool while the kids swam. For how quickly the popsicles melt and drop all over the kids, the popsicles seemed to take FOREVER to melt in the sun!
When the popsicles finally melted completely, the popsicle paint was ready! That’s it. That’s how simple of an art activity this is. Just melt the popsicles in a cup or a bowl, grab some paintbrushes and paper, and paint.
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The popsicle paint was a such a hit with my own children! The smell of the paint was so inviting, and it was so neat that the painted paper smelled yummy too. My girls may or may not have been able to stop themselves from tasting their paintbrushes!
We found that the paint needed to be stirred every so often to break up some of the leftover goopy parts of the popsicle. The popsicle sticks worked perfectly for this.
The melted popsicles painted more like the watercolor disks in the tray instead of liquid watercolors. We used cardstock to paint on and I think that regular copy paper would have been too thin for the colors to show vibrantly enough.
In our box of popsicles, there were many colors to choose from, but we only used the primary colored popsicles. My kids think that creating new colors is fun and liked seeing the different shades of purple, green, and orange they could make.
The entire activity of making popsicle paint, from melting the popsicles to creating sweet smelling artwork, was a lot of fun. It involved different science through changing the state of matter from solid to liquid. We mixed primary colors to create secondary colors. The paintings created were not only creative art, they were a lot of fun to make!
Make your own popsicle paint with your kids at home or in school this summer!
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