Painting is pretty much The Babe’s favorite activity. So we do every style of it. Including string painting and printing. This was a super easy one, that even used some recyclable materials. My favorite!
To do some string painting and printing, first find a decent sized box, larger than the paper you want to print. Attach some string in a random pattern by taping along the side. I used my favorite red and white striped kitchen twine. (I used to have a theory that it was time to find a new job when you finished a box of staples. I’m dating myself by talking paper here… Now that I’m a stay at home mama, I believe that it’s time to move to a new house when you finish a spool of twine. These things last forever!!) Make sure that the strings are pulled tight because limp strings won’t print…
Then paint the strings with a variety of colors. (Don’t tell The Hubby that I caught him painting with The Babe… I’m going to turn him into an artist one of these days!)
After all the strings are pretty wet with paint, press a sheet of paper evenly onto the strings. Pull the paper strait up to get a clean imprint of the lines. The Babe loved taking these prints one step further by finger painting within the squares and triangles on the paper.





