Rolling pin painting

What you need

• Some small rolling pins (if you don’t have any, use cardboard tubes or even empty drinks bottles!) Paint
• String Bubble wrap
• Paper
• Any other materials that will create texture on your rolling pins

Benefits

Experimenting with mark-making and using different textures to create imprints is an exciting and engaging sensory experience for your child. Making a connection between their movements (in this case, rolling the pin) and the marks made is all part of the journey to becoming a writer, that begins from the earliest age.

The experience

Prepare an area, such as a large piece of paper taped to the floor or a table area.

You will need to prepare your rolling pins ahead of time. The idea is to create different textures that will make a variety of prints. You could perhaps stick some bubble wrap to one pin; wrap some string in various arrangements around another; glue on pieces of cardboard in different shapes or stick one some sponges, etc. If you’re using cardboard tubes, you could also cut out small shapes into the tube, so there will be areas where there will be no paint.