Rolled Conker Art

We have been out and about in various parks and the children had collected a lot of lovely shiny conkers. After playing with them for a while I decided to add some paint and shake things up a bit! The children had a lovely time choosing colours, shaking their paintings with some eye catching results.

Using a washing up bowl, some paper and a handful of conkers, the older children chose the colours of paint they wanted to make blobs with and squeezed some blobs onto the paper. We opted for autumnal colours in line with our Autumn theme this month but any colours would work. They then began to shake and roll the bowl to make the conkers move. 

As the conkers travelled through the paint they transferred it all over the paper in a lovely, unpredictable variety of lines, colours and patterns and the colours blend together to make some beautiful marbled effects and produce some lovely abstract artwork.