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Easy Art For Kids – String and Block Printing.

Posted on May 8, 2012 7 Comments

string and block printing

Some days it is all about quick and easy. It’s all about using things I have on hand, not needing to buy or collect or wait for anything.

Today it was an old idea from the my early days of teaching, and I can’t believe I’ve never done this my own kids

string block printing

It’s easy, a few wooden blocks (or in our case off cuts from the renovations) with some string or wool wound around them. Some paint (with a squirt of dish washing liquid for easy clean-up) and some paper.

string block printing

I think we’ll use our painting for wrapping paper!

string block printing

For some more easy printing ideas how about some circle printing, printing with duplo or some sponge printing?

printing ideas

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  1. Ali says

    I love quick and easy and I love this.

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  2. lipgloss mumma says

    Great idea. Reminds me of the old trick of cutting shapes out of the potoatoes. Must try that one too!

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  3. Kylie @ Octavia and Vicky says

    Awesome post! Pinned it :)

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  4. Deb says

    I have to get my kids to develop a gentler touch – whenever we do printing we just end up with smooshes of colour :) I love how the strings have come out clearly.

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  5. umatji says

    a squirt of dishwashing liquid – now that is the kind of info i need to hear about on billboards and in the newspaper – genius! beautiful result too!
    x

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  6. Marita says

    My girls loved doing this sort of painting at Kinder. I keep meaning to ask, do you have any use for syringes? because we are getting quite a collection of syringes that we use to administer the girls melatonin and we really only need 2.

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  7. Linda says

    Duplo…why didn’t I think of that!!!!???

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