Spin art

Jessica and I had a favorite place to go to when we were kids to make stuff, and I think it was called Splatters.  It was (in our minds) this magical place to make cool clothing.  You would pick a sweatshirt/t shirt/tote bag/etc and put it on a spinning table and then drip paint onto it to create cool designs.  Inevitably, the clothing looked like we made it and the fad lost its steam pretty quickly.  How I wish I could find a picture of one of our ugly creations.  Alas, no photographic evidence might not be a bad thing.  Anyhow, today you can buy little machines like this one to create the same art.   I was inspired by something I saw on Pinterest, so last night I introduced Laney to spin art, the modern mommy version.

Laney needed to make some thank you notes for the volunteers in her Moppets class at Mops, as well as some Mother's Day cards.  We dropped a card into my salad spinner, which I haven't used in years since I discovered salad in a bag :)  Laney dripped paint onto the cards and then we gave it a whirl.  Here are her creations:

She really wanted me to put Laney Bug instead of Laney on the back.  

  I have to say that I had forgotten how fun it is to do spin art, and was really immersed in some fun memories last night as Laney and I made modern spin art cards.  It was really neat to see her experiment with the paint and to think of new ways to decorate.  It was like a little science experiment every time we took the lid off the spinner to see what we had made.   Mommy bonus: this project is not very messy and pretty cheap.   I think this art project is bound to repeated again and again this summer.