Drip Drop Blob Art

Change up your painting activities with a fun new method of drip painting- using everyday kitchen items!

Painting with drip drops!

What you need:

- white A4 card
- acrylic paints (we used IKEA MALA paints) mixed with a little water
- tin foil
- elastic bands
- plastic cups
- toothpick

How it works:

This activity is super fast to set up and mostly requires everyday materials. Simply add some paint in each cup and mix it with a splash of water. Just use your judgement on how runny the paint is- you want it runny enough to flow through the holes, but not so runny that a watery mess flows onto the page. We used approx. 2 tablespoons of paint and 1-2 teaspoons of water.

Cups, tin foil, elastic bands, holes and paint!

Cover each cup with tin foil and secure it with an elastic band. Then use a toothpick to pierce the foil lid. If you have older kids they would probably enjoy doing this part themselves. You can create different patterns and vary the number of holes for each color.

Then the fun starts. Let your kids tip the paint cups upside down and watch as the paint slowly drips out of the holes. My kids were completely mesmerized as the paint dripped down onto the card.

Deep dripping concentration!

Encourage your kids to experiment with trying to mix colors by creating layered drips.

Mixing colors.

You can also challenge your kids to create patterns or designs with their dripping paint.

Creating drip patterns.

Once the kids were happy with their drip drop art, we added a bonus process art step of folding the card in half, squishing the paint, and making pretty blob art prints! This one came out looking like a beautiful butterfly.

Drip drops turned into blob art!

The end pieces were pretty stunning with the vibrant colors. A great activity for different ages and encouraging mess free process painting.