January 26, 2012

Winter Fun for Kids: Painting with Icicles

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Lily was thrilled to discover that you can “paint” on construction paper with icicles! The paper is fairly porous, so the water shows up right away, then dries so you can paint all over again!

This was a great distraction from the virus she was battling, and she surprised me by making some pretty neat observations about her icicle:

It was so much fun that we decided to do it again with Johnny when he got home from preschool the next day! Lily showed him what to do:

And Johnny was equally fascinated!

Emma was very disappointed to discover that she had been left out of icicle painting, so we’ll be repeating this activity the next time we have icicles hanging from our roof!

Do you have any fun icicle activities? We’ve also used icicles to paint with Kool-Aid!

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Becky says

February 2, 2012 at 2:30 pm

I LOVE this idea! Older kids could write words with them! We’ll have to try it IF we get snow this winter!
Dorothy (@TheSaneMom) says

February 24, 2013 at 3:26 am

Great idea! This is my first time hearing about painting with icicles. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, we don’t have any icicles here.
Lisa says

February 24, 2013 at 8:31 am

Very nice. Wish we had icicles here to paint with.

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