Rain Painting with Water: Easy Spring Activity

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Rain Painting with Water is a fun and mess free painting activity for toddlers and preschoolers. It’s a fun spring activity and makes the perfect set up for a rainy day.

Painting with Water

Painting with water is a super easy activity for toddlers and even preschoolers. It’s a great way to introduce your young toddler to painting without all the mess. It’s super easy to set up and can be used almost anywhere. Need a way to keep your toddler occupied while you breastfeed or make dinner? Pull out a sheet of coloured construction paper, a bowl of water (just a small amount) and a paint brush and you have the making of a fun activity.

I have taken this classic, fun and easy activity to the next level by adding an additional art element. This levels it up particularly for preschoolers. In this activity I let me mini preschoolers pretend to paint the rain falling from a rain cloud.

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How to Set Up Rain Painting with Water

Grab different 6 sheets of coloured construction paper in different colours and painters tape. Attached them to the wall in a 3×2 grid.
Grab a black sharpie and draw the picture of a cloud with a cute face and rain falling down.
Grab a bowl and fill it with a small amount of water. You don’t need a lot of water for this activity and the less water you have then less mess you will have.
Hand your toddler a paint brush and invite them to paint the raindrops and clouds.

Troubleshooting

Before starting this activity make sure that your construction paper won’t bleed onto your walls when wet

Easy Fun

This is a great mess free activity to do on a rainy day. Its a fun way to talk about colours as well. As your toddler or preschooler is painting talk about how the water is changing the colour of the construction paper. As it dries talk about how the paper changes back.

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