Stained Glass Art with Toilet Rolls

I am rather excited to be joining up with a few bloggers this month to showcase some lovely and rather expressive art techniques for kids’ painting!

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Our contribution is printing with toilet rolls! You can, of course, use plain old cardboard tubes too; they work just as well.

Gather your supplies. You will need:

Sheets of paper or cardstock. Our sheet is an A3 size, which is double letter.
A toilet roll or tube per kid
Black paint
Water Paints

I once again brought out the trusty activity tray to work on. I find these contain the paper, which results in none on the floor; they are easy to just pick up and move, and I stack them by rotating a bit for artwork like this to dry!

Or you can just tape your paper to the table. 😉

Put some black paint in a dish and let the kids get stamping! It was interesting to see who was following my example. The eldest made some overlapping circles like I demonstrated, my 2-year-old attempted it, and my 4-year-old was, well, himself and decided to just do his own thing, which usually ends in him painting himself.

Looking great on the overlapping!

At this point it would have been great to be able to show a finished art creation to my 5-year-old for him to visualize what I had in mind. I think he would have made more precise stampings as well.

UPDATE: I have had a few people say I put too much emphasis on my child to copy me. Well, he is currently in an “I must copy Mommy” phase and was eagerly straining his neck to see what I was doing, so I showed him! Having a finished item to copy off would have made him happier when it came to painting the circles, and I am sure he would have put his own spin on it too! I didn’t FORCE the kid to do anything.

This is what mine looked like after the stamping, including some “help” from the 2-year-old. Because you know they have to help.

These tubes are still usable, and I am pondering what I could do with the black-painted tubes. Maybe make some animals?

I then stacked the trays for these toilet roll stamps to dry.

Later that afternoon we got the watercolors out. Super excited kids each got their trays back.

I proceeded to make an example of what we were trying to do.

I think my 5-year-old kind of got the idea.

My 2-year-old gave up on her artwork and kept coming to help me.

The 4-year-old only used himself as the canvas, so basically my 2-year-old went around the table painting her art, painting his art, and painting my art.

I am rather pleased with the way it came out, though! We will need to do this one again now that my 5-year-old has seen what the end result can look like.