Enjoy a fabulous art process using combs and brightly coloured
paints, to explore textures and patterns with kids! Painting
sessions with young children are much less about creating an end
result and finished product than they should be about exploring
materials in an experimental, hands-on way. This fun activity
teaches kids tout using new materials in a different way,
investigating how to create patterns and textures and observing
colour mixing. We recently found this great selection of plastic
combs at the £1 shop and stocked up on them ready to do some fun
experimenting with what effects we could create when dragging
them through paint. Using a baking tray lined with tin foil, we
squirted in some bright, ready-mix paints in rainbow colour
order and dipped the combs into it to pick up some colour on the
tips. First they tried scraping the paint onto the paper this
way, but it was hard to pick up enough to make many marks, so we
quickly modified our idea by squirting the paints directly onto
the paper and t