Recently I shared a sensory spice painting activity over on Raising Life Long Learners. The boys had such a fun time mixing up their own spice paints, and exploring the scents as we painted.
They painted so many sheets of paper with different spice paints! So we decided to make something out of the paintings. It’s always good to find a way to convert fun process art into a something that can be used or displayed, and our final result, making spice painted cards, worked really well.
To see how we mixed up the spice paints, and more about the initial activity, read the previous post on Raising Life Long Learners and once all your spice paintings are dry – you’re ready to make some of these cards!
Our spices were mixed with white paint, and stood out the best on black – which worked well on the cards.
Once the spice paintings are dry, cut out your desired shape in a mixture of sizes. We went for hearts since it’s Valentines Day but to make this activity work all year round you can easily vary the shapes. Cut out flowers or stars or letters to spell out a sweet message or name.
We used plain brown cardboard cards and brown envelopes for our cards. The natural cardboard look goes well with the spice paint – kind of a rustic and natural colour scheme.
Once your shapes are cut out (you could use a die cutter if you wish, but we did it freehand and the rough hand made look adds to the effect I think), then all you need to do is arrange them onto your cards and envelopes and stick them down.
We used a glue stick which worked fine, but whatever gluing option you prefer should work well too!
And ta daa.. you’re handmade scented card is ready! You will probably want to use pleasant smelling spices like Cinnamon and avoid the not so great smelling like Turmeric. Avoid pepper and chilli powder too!!
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What a great idea to add spices to the paint, I never would have thought of this, I will be pinning this for our half term craft activities
what a great idea, the tiny particles and colours would look fab. Thanks for linking up with fabulously frugal I do hope you come back next week.
What an interesting way of mixing with paint! They must smell very nice!
Love this idea! So simple, but fun for little ones 🙂
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