Art Activities for kids : Rolling Pin Yarn Prints

Make vibrantly colored prints with rolling pins and yarn. An exciting process art for toddlers.

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Welcome to the 4th installment of our easy art projects for kids series we are doing along side many bloggers (listed at the end of the post)

Here are our previous installments:

• Exploring Water colors
• Exploring Resist Art
• Exploring Crayons

Today’s art activity is revolves around our topic for the week : Exploring String Art

Materials { affiliate link below}

• Rolling Pins 
• Glue/hot glue
• Yarn
• Neon Color Paints ( we used another store brand neon paints)

Process

There are two ways to wrap your rolling pins with yarn. Since I didn’t plan this art activity well ahead of time (!) I resorted to using hot glue. I hot glued one end of the yarn to one end of the rolling pin. I went ahead and tightly wrapped the yarn around the rolling pin and ended up hot gluing the other end of the yarn to the pin. For additional security you can hot glue the middle part as well. Alternatively you can dip the yarn in regular white glue and then wrap it around the rolling pin. It will probably take a day or two for the glue to dry and the pin to be ready for art activities. Get creative with your wrapping design. My 5.5 year year old and I did our wrapping,

When I was about to squirt one paint per platter, my 3 year old suggested we “rainbowfy” our art project { all our rainbow activities here} Not true rainbow, but all her favorite colors were added in intervals.

Then she was more than happy to roll her rolling pins over the vibrant neon paints to first get all her paints mixed up.  Then on a large sheet of paper she enjoyed making big and beautiful prints with yarn. The prints were so beautiful and clear and the toddler was in art heaven with this fun process art. It was all about the motion for her!

Big Sister wanted to join in as well and chose her favorite colors. Can you spot the green that was created with rolling action over the blue and yellow?

The she made her gorgeous yarn prints .

There is no product we need to achive in this fun toddler art. It was all about getting their favorite colors on the yarn and transfering them to paper. Juts look at those yarn prints!

I had rolling pins of various sizes for a reason.

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The smaller yarn wrapped rollong pins really helped her with her fine motor skills.

Finally our wonderful and colorful process art was completed..I can’t get enough of these rolling pins.

That was not all. When I removed the yarn from the pins, I was pleasantly surprised to be left with these gorgeous multi -colored yarn

So we extended the yarn art activity.

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Art activities for kids on our category page

Stop by the following blogs for more gorgeous string art activities

 String Art for Kids Using Styrofoam and Toothpicks from Buggy and Buddy

String Art Easter Cross from Housing A Forest

Rubber Band Art from Babble Dabble Doo

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