Car Track Painting

Combine art and play by using toy cars as painting tools.
Materials Sketch paper Toy cars Plates or shallow containers Poster paint Mat or newspapers

Steps

	1.	Cover your work area with a mat or with newspapers. Prepare paint on plates or shallow containers.
	2.	Lay down a piece of sketch paper at the center of your mat. Get your toy cars ready as well.
	3.	Place a toy car on a plate of paint and move it back and forth so that the wheels pick up paint.
	4.	Roll the car along the sketch paper. The wheels make colorful tracks on paper.
	5.	Let kids play and paint with their toy cars. To avoid mixing all the colors together and ending up with mud-colored tracks, assign one toy car per color tray.
	6.	As an additional activity, kids can have a "car wash". Prepare a basin or tub of water where kids can wash their cars. This is a sure hit with kids and provides them with an opportunity to help out with some clean up.

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