Salad Spinner Art
A few weeks ago when visiting my in-laws, we practiced our customary scavenging of their “to-go” pile. Among the great old wooden crates and mason jars we took, there was a salad spinner. I snatched it up telling my mother and father in law my plans to squirt paint inside for some home made spin art–they were tickled!
I watered down some tempra paint and cut some paper circles to fit the bottom of the spinner.
Oooh Ahhhhh! I bet if you didn’t have a second salad spinner the paint would probably wash out…but please don’t blame me if you try it and it ruins your salad spinner!! Maybe look for one second hand for spin art purposes only!
Tags: art, Paint, paper circles, salad spinner, Spinner, tempra, tempra paint
I like it! Might I suggest that you line the inside of the glass bowl with strips of paper for a striped effect? I think that might look neat, too!
Love salad spinner painting. It’s great for all ages. I’ll be trying the Kristina’s idea of adding paper along the sides. Think might get some really interesting results. We are always making textured paper around here to use for a variety of projects. think the results will be great additions to that box.
Simply brilliant idea! I remember as a kid the spinner art started popping up in kiosks at malls. I was enthralled. I could never bring myself to spend the money to buy the toy versions for home, afraid that after the novelty wore of it would be shelved, so repurposing a salad spinner is sheer genius! I’ll be linking on Facebook. Thanks!
We use our only salad spinner with both washable tempra and washable liquid watercolors and it is good as new afterwards.
How fun! I love how vibrant the art is.
Hit the thrift stores or Ikea for an inexpensive salad spinner. I made 3×5″ “paintings” with my art students. We then pasted them to note cards and packaged them up as holiday gifts.