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From YouTube: Fun ways to Paint with Katy

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In this video Katy shows you some fun ideas for painting using objects you find around the house. What can you find at home to paint with? Make sure you get permission to use your painting objects and use washable paint for this activity.

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Hello, everyone and welcome to another bcp library, video. My name is katie, and today I'm going to be experimenting with paint to show you how you can create some really fun and abstract paintings with things that you find at home. Maybe you have some sponges some toilet roll tubes, some forks spoons, even some toys and we're gonna get started right now. So, first of all, I'm going to make a flower painting, and for this you need a toilet roll inside and to cut it.

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Like I have done here, cut some strips about halfway down and flatten it out. Then you want to cover those bits with some paint you can either dip dip in the paint like I'm doing here or you can get a paintbrush and paint it on. I am doing a red flower, so I'm covering mine in some red paint. As you can see, and once you have got all the paint on as much as you can, you don't need to put too much paint on either.

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Just a thin coat will be fine because otherwise it will take longer to dry and you might end up putting your hand in it, and then you just want to press it on the page like a stamp, and the idea is that we're going to use lots of things that we find at home, like toys, sponges and even toilet roll tubes like like this one and we're gonna, just make some fun patterns and experiment, but just make sure you've got permission to use whatever you're using and that the paint you use is cheap paint and it does wash off.

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So I wouldn't use your most expensive toys or most expensive cutlery just to make sure you've got permission and have some fun. So now, I'm using a cotton bud to add some dots into the middle of my flowers, I'm using some green and some yellow like this, and now I'm taking the spoon and I'm going to make some blue flowers. So I'm just putting some paint on the spoon and the spoon makes really good. Petal shapes like this.

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So I'm just again stamping it on adding a bit more paint and stamping it on about five or six petals to make the flower and again we will use the cotton cotton bud to add some dots in the middle of the flower, so you can do whatever you like. You can use whatever you like, I'm just using things that I found around my home. You don't have to paint flowers, you can just do lots of shapes and now I've got a leaf and you can use real leaves.

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This is a pretend leaf that I have at home, but you can use some real leaves if you want to because it's getting into autumn now- and you can just put some paint on your leaf and put it on your page. Like a stamp like this, and here I have a little stencil that is like a butterfly, so I put some paint on it and it stamps a butterfly flying in the flowers- and this is my abstract garden. Flower painting.

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So now I'm going to do a galaxy, so I'm just taking a sponge and adding some purple blue and red on the page. First, just randomly just dabbing onto the paper with my sponge and then adding some black paint.

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You don't want to use too much black paint here because it's nice to have colors in our galaxy, but the sponge will blend the colors together nicely and you just need to dab on to cover your page and once you are happy with your galaxy, you then need to leave your paint to dry and make sure it is completely dry, maybe put it aside and work on another painting, while this paint is drying because otherwise it won't work when we do the top layer.

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So my paint is dry now, as you can see, and I've found a star and it's attached to a fairy. So I'm just painting that white and this paint this cheap paint you can get from craft shops from the children's section, will wash off your toys and your plastic stuff quite easily.

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But maybe don't use your favorite toy because you don't want to ruin it and I'm just stamping down a star shape with some white on top, so it looks like a star in the galaxy, and I also use the cotton bud again to add some circles, and now I've got an old toothbrush, which I use for painting added some white on there and just flicked it around to make lots of little stars.

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You can maybe draw some planets on top. Maybe you can cut out some planet shapes and put them on your page and then do the sponging over the top a bit like a stencil. It's completely up to you. You can use whatever you have at home. You might even want to do an ocean with some blue paint, and then you might have a fish toy that you can put some paint on and stamp.

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It is totally up to you, but make sure you don't use your favorite toy just in case you ruin it, but all the paint should wash off.

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And there is my galaxy painting so now I found a toy motorbike and I am adding some green paint to the wheels and then I'm going to ride the motorbike up my page and we're going to make some really long stalks.

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So once you have enough paint on your on your wheel, I am now going to ride the motorbike up. The page like this.

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There we go and I'm going to do this a few times, um because I want to create some very tall. Flowers and the texture on the wheels gives a nice texture to the paint. So here are my stalks and I'm just doing the last one. Now there we go and once I done all of my long stalks, I got some more of the cotton buds.

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I put three together this time, rather than just using one at a time and I'm doing that because it'll be quicker and it will make lots of clumps and I'm doing some nice lavender. So I'm using a bit of purple and blue just mixing the purple and blue and just going down a few of the stalks like this and I'm just doing the last one. Now I think this looks very effective and I think is my favorite painting out of the ones I have done today.

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And I also have a guitar plectrum, which is a thing that you use to play the guitar. Maybe you have something similar at home, I'm just getting some green paint and just dabbing it on to make some leaves. And again I have my butterfly like that, because I thought it would fit quite nicely.

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And finally, I just have a plastic comb that I'm using to add some leaves and a bit more texture- and here is my finished painting. So these are my experimental paintings with things that I found at home. You might not have exactly the same things as I do, but you can maybe find some things at home that are similar or completely different, and you can just experiment with.

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