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No-Touch Painting with Toddlers

October 31, 2011 by Sheryl Cooper

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No-touch painting is perfect with toddlers who don’t like to touch paint. This is a fun sensory activity because even though their hands aren’t actually touching the paint, they can still feel the paint underneath the waxed paper. They can slide their hands around, moving the paint, mixing the colors. And when they lift the waxed paper to see what they created, they want to do another one. Even our toddlers than love the feel of paint directly on their hands enjoyed this activity.

 

No-Touch Painting with Toddlers
 

 

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What you will need:

Tempera paint

We placed our paint in squeeze bottles, but it’s optional. We purchased some, but also reused old paint bottles.

Wax paper

Paper

 

Getting started:

Squeeze at least 2 colors on a sheet of paper.

No-Touch Painting with Toddlers

 

No-Touch Painting with Toddlers

 

 Place the wax paper (or plastic wrap) on top. Rub hands on top, moving the paint around.

 

No-Touch Painting with Toddlers

 

No-Touch Painting with Toddlers

 

Lift the wax paper off and let the paint completely dry. That’s all there is to this simple, fun activity!

 

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More ideas for young children:

Preschool Painting with Rolling Pins     Easy Kids Art with Freezer Bags

 

Favorite books of activities for kids:

 

         

 

 

 

 

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Filed Under: Art, Toddlers Tagged With: art, fine motor, sensory, toddlers

About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. Deborah J Stewart

    October 31, 2011 at 5:10 am

    Haha – you make me laugh Sheryl! I bet they loved squeezing out their own paint. I have done lots of projects where I break out into a sweat too! Too funny. This is an idea I will use every year:)

  2. Anonymous

    October 31, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    I see in one of your photos in the background there is a bottle of watercolor paints, did you use these as well or just used these bottles with the tempra paint in it instead of the liquid watercolors?

  3. Sheryl

    October 31, 2011 at 10:04 pm

    That was an empty watercolor bottle that I refilled with tempera paint. Always recycling! 🙂

  4. Anonymous

    November 1, 2011 at 7:19 am

    Hi I’m a childminder from England and look forward to your fb links daily! All your ideas and activities are so inspirational! I love this idea but before I begin just need to check – do I leave the wax paper stuck together to dry or pull apart? Xxx

  5. TrishKouf

    November 7, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    My kids actually wanted to rip off the wax paper and get their hands into it….i was surprised because usually they want to run to the sink after fingerpainting….oh well it was worth a try and maybe i’ll try it again soon. Thanks for this fun activity….i enjoyed not having a huge mess haha.

  6. Tessiemae

    December 30, 2011 at 11:32 am

    You have the best ideas on your blog… My kids are going to love this. Thanks for sharing.

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