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20 Ways to Play With Tin Foil

Posted on November 5, 2013 7 Comments

20 ways to play with tin foil from picklebums.com

Good old tin foil has become one of our favourite materials to use for art, craft projects and play. It is such an interesting, easy to find and cheap material and you can do so many different things with it.

We are not the only ones who enjoy exploring and experimenting with foil. There are lots of fabulous bloggers who are sharing awesome ideas and projects. Today I am sharing fifteen of the coolest ways to play with tin foil from some of the best bloggers I know!

15 ways to play with tin foil

We had slippery slidey fun finger painting on tin foil – Finger Painting On Foil

Teach Preschool scrunched their foil before finger painting – Exploring Aluminum Foil in Preschool

Twodoloo made an extra large foil canvas to finger paint on, and explore with added feathers! – Foil Feathers Fingerpaint… Fabulous!

15 ways to play with tin foil

We add a secret ingredient to help our paint stick when we paint on foil – Painting on Foil

Learn-Play-Imagine used scented sand paint on foil with cool results – Homemade Kool Aid Sand Paint.

Frogs Snails and Puppy Dog Tails used scented glitter paint for their foil painting – Foil Painting Sensory Art

15 ways to play with tin foil

Drawing on foil is super simple, but very cool! – Easy Art For Kids – Drawing on Foil

Kid World Citizen used glue to add texture and details to their lovely foil creations – Try This Gorgeous Asian Elephant Craft

Artsy Craftsy Mom used string to add texture and details to their cool foil lizards – Lizard’s Tail – Crafting with Aluminum Foil

20 ways to play with tin foil

We glued tissue paper and sequins onto foil with lovely results. – Foil Collage

Laughing Kids Learn ripped up the foil before using it for a collage – Exploring Tin Foil

Powerful Mothering added foil to use with contact paper – Recycled Materials on Contact Paper – Kids Activities with Foil

20 ways to play with tin foil

We made simple, silvery, Christmas decorations with foil and permanent markers – Easy Tin Foil Christmas Decorations

Artchoo made a range of cool foil creations! – Aluminum Foil Sculpture

The Imagination tree was inspired by the work of Alberto Giacometti – Giacometti Inspired Figure Sculptures

20 ways to play with tin foil

We used foil to make ‘moon rocks’ for our space play dough scene – Space Crazy – Free Printable Space Characters

Happy Hooligans used foil as a base for their amazing melted crayon art – Art With Melted Crayons

Do you love playing with foil as much as we do?? What’s your favourite way to use it?

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  1. Kate_Laughing Kids Learn says

    What a brilliant collection of activities using tin foil. Thanks also for including one of mine!

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  2. Jo says

    We love using foil as well. Will have to try some of your great ideas. We love painting on it with cotton buds.

    http://mothersmessymadness.blogspot.ch/2013/10/tin-foil-painting.html

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  3. Caitlin says

    Super ideas! I bought some foil last week. I can predict that I now may need to buy a second roll next week, but oh what fun we shall have in the meantime!

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  4. Angelina says

    Thanks for these great ideas! I don’t think I’ve ever used tin foil, so this will be a first for me! It looks really neat!
    Visiting from KBN!

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  5. Lucy @ Bake Play Smile says

    These are such great ideas! Foil is so versatile and always has a place on the collage trolley in my classroom. Picked up a few new ideas too so thanks so much!!!

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  6. Erin says

    Great list of creative ways to have fun with the little ones. Definitely going to try these and share! Thanks for all the great ideas!

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