Messy Toy Car Tyre Painting

Posted 2013-05-17 by Jane Street ⇒ follow

Messy fun with toy cars

This is a great fun messy painting activity for kids who love cars. It's also a fun way to explore comparisons (e.g. bigger than/smaller than) and colour mixing. You can make a dynamic car artwork with your track painting by sticking pictures of cars on top.

Time: 30 minutes
Age: Under 5's, 5-10's
Level: Easy

Materials

Shallow box - optional but it helps to contain the mess. It could be a plastic tray or you can cut down a cardboard box like we did.

Paper

Paint and paint trays

Selection of toy cars which can be washed afterwards. Try to pick a range of sizes, smooth wheels/patterned wheels etc

Newspaper

Pictures of cars from magazines

Glue

Method

Lay out newspaper and put paper in the bottom of your shallow box

Put different colours of paint in different trays

Ready to paint

Set out a selection of cars. With older children, spend some time looking at the different wheels - which ones are bigger/ which are smaller; which are smooth/ which are patterned etc. Try to predict how their tracks will look different to the others.