Marble Heart Painting

Shaving cream art marbling is one of our favorite arts and crafts activities for preschoolers.

Marble heart painting.

Preparation is the key to painting a marble fireplace surround. You can also dip all of your marbles in paint and let them all roll at the same time. If you ve got energetic preschoolers make sure to check out our busy kids. Lift the box and move it all around making the paint covered marble roll across the paper.

One alternative to replacement is to paint over the marble. Swirling the paints around on the paper plate to make the marble effect on this valentine s day card is great fun and it does mean that the paint is relatively easily contained. We ve done active art activities in the past such as our splat glove painting and our spin art hearts. In painting you lose the natural stone touch but you can choose the color or even faux finish the look to create a marble look.

After about 8 10 runs i felt that this heart was complete. I m happy to report that the painted marble finish is beautiful and it s holding up fantastically. They have a fun sensory experience as well as end up with lovely preschool valentines cards. Painting the marble hearth was a little risky because i wasn t sure if it would actually work but i painted and stenciled the tile hearth in my old home so i decided to chance it here too.

Dip a marble in paint and place it in the box. The great thing about making these sweet marbled hearts is the children can pick whatever color combination they want. One disadvantage of choosing marble is that the natural stone is heavy and expensive to replace. The entire upper body is used to hold and then tip the box lid back and forth while the marbles make paint tracks all over the paper heart.