Paint plaster with paint

What you need:

• old clothes
• Water color
• Craft paint
• Water glass with water
• paint brush
• document
• old newspaper

Teach children to paint on plaster of paris

• If you want to achieve a beautiful result, you should guide your children well. Provide your children with plaster figures, pictures or clocks that are well dry.
• You and your children can share these figures a few days in advance. Make pictures yourself. Explain to your children that the cast does not warm up until it dries. When it is well dried, the plaster of paris will feel cold.
• There are several ways you can provide guidance to your children. You can let your children decide what they want and how they want to paint the plaster. This will encourage your child's creativity, and it is also a good exercise for fine motor skills.

Choose a color to paint on

• The choice of color for painting the plaster should be discussed with your children about which one Colours are suitable for it.
• "Liquid" colors as well as watercolors, poster colors and craft colors are particularly suitable. You should not dilute the paints too much and use little water for the watercolor so that the paints adhere well to the plaster of paris.


Coloring plaster - this is how it can be done with different methods

You can easily create plaster of paris with different colors in your personal ...

• You can also use glitter colors. To get the colors nice and shiny, you can spray or paint them with clear varnish. This is especially important if you are working with water color, if you want to use the finished plaster figures outdoors.

This is how you go about painting

1. Before painting the plaster of paris, let your children put on old clothes so that they do not have to pay attention to their clothes while creative painting.
2. You should also prepare the table by placing a painting pad on the table and placing the plaster figure on it, so that your children can design creatively, and if you get the paint on the surface, it won't is bad.
3. Explain to your children how to deal with the colors you have picked out with it A beautiful result can be created and you and your children will enjoy the plaster figures prepare.
4. Place the paints, brushes and water glass within reach of your children so that they can easily access the colors and other water glass and thus let their creativity run free.
5. With smaller children (under six years of age) you should stick with it, older children do not necessarily need to be supervised in such a way that they stand behind them. But you should stay close so that you can answer questions from your children to help them paint creatively.
6. After painting, the plaster figure should dry well. For this purpose, it is particularly suitable to put old newspapers underneath and to bring the figures to a place where they can stand undisturbed for several hours.
7. Now you can paint your figures if you want. To get your figures weatherproof, follow the instructions on the packaging for how long the varnish has to dry before you can put the figures outside.

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