Rolling corn prints

We got Creativity for Kids Finger Prints from the Borders store closing sale. I got it mainly for the paint roller and the monoprint. CJ loved the idea of finger painting and transferring the print to a paper with the paint roller.



I saw this idea of rolling pin and bubble sheet art over at Play based learning blog. For a different texture, we used an ear of corn instead of rolling pin and bubble sheet. This is a fun project to explore texture and color mixing.


Materials: Finger-paint/Washable paint, paper, an ear of corn, Kebab sticks/Bamboo skewer - 2nos

Steps overview:

Cut an ear of corn to 3 to 4 inches size. Insert the bamboo skewers on either side as shown below, easier to hold like a rolling pin.


Let your kid play with the finger paint on a paper/ plastic sheet. Roll the ear of corn in the paint as shown below. We got some corns prints here.




Then roll onto a new paper just like using rolling pin




Finger painting on the corn and print






Corn monoprints


We made some prints by rolling the corn down the slide, since playing with slide and paint is hit @our home - the car slide painting and the kool-aid ice cube melting.