Adalinc to Life: Mark Making Art With Dryer Balls

Mark Making with Dryer Balls

I was cleaning out my laundry room the other day and realized I had a variety of different dryer ball sizes and shapes and I immediately thought these could make interesting marks if rolled through some paint. My kids would love this art experiment making different marks with the different dryer balls.

Supplies:

Dryer Balls
Paint
Paper plates for holding paint colours and rolling the dryer balls in
Paper (I used black chalk board paper and white)

They were easy to wash afterwards as well but you might not want to reuse those dryer balls that have the sponges inside of them (Big Green One). I was going to throw it away but instead it gets to be used in our art activity. The smaller blue ones were throughly washed and dried and could be reused again in my dryer if I wanted.

My daughter chose a white piece of paper and a small blue dryer ball and of course pink glitter paint.
First, she rolled the dryer ball in the paint.

Then she tried rolling the ball over the paper.

She also tried a stamping type of mark or as in the other photo my daughter tried scratching into existing paint colours. So many options for them to see what they might do.

My son didn't want to use the dryer balls so I just gave him so glitter glue and pastels on black chalk board paper and this became his Fireworks Picture.

It is amazing what can be found in your house and used to make art. Have you tried anything new and exciting with found objects in your house? I would love to hear about it. If you liked this post you might also like these other art activities I have done:

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