This is one of the very versatile paper crafts for children. You can make patterns, pictures, even write words by scraping into the paint. You just need some paper and paint, and some tools to do the scraping. Tools like a piece of card, the end of a brush or even fingers will do!
To make a more dramatic scraped paint image, first coat the paper with a base layer of acrylic paint. If you are using just one layer of paint and scraping through to the paper, then any sort of paint is fine.
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Once the first layer is dry paint a small area on top. I have painted and scraped each stripe before starting the next one. |
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While the paint is still wet scrape into the paint with a tool, like the end of a paint brush or a peice of card. |
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You can scrape patterns or words into the wet paint. |
Cut bits from the finished piece for all sorts of paper crafts.
Download the printable version of the tutorial – PDF Worksheet – Scraped Paint
See some of the things we made with just half of this decorated paper at Scraped Paint Decorated Things.
