I like my sponge painting with really watery paint; it’s a very different experience to regular printing with sponges and poster paints. Watery paint is soaked up more easily by the sponge and has a far more dramatic effect when squeezed out onto paper. It falls from the sponge faster and more freely creating satisfying drips and splatters all over the place. The children have a whale of a time patting the painty puddles and watching/feeling the splashes. I find also that as watery paint runs over the paper more freely it also makes patterns quickly and the colours mix more readily. So recently I revisited the activity with one of my groups of 2-3 year olds – here are some photos (old and new) of this watery paint play in action:
Eyes Pie Arts 