Low-Mess Mittens Painting

Clara and Emily loved painting these mitten pictures, and there was very little mess involved! The secret is to use bleeding art tissue, which is available at any art supply store and is very inexpensive.

I cut out some mitten shapes from the bleeding art tissue paper and arranged them on top of some very thick water color paper. Since the tissue paper is so thin, I cut out all four mittens at the same time by layering the paper. Very quick and easy!

Then the girls used water to paint on top of the art bleeding tissue paper.

We were having so much fun with this!

Wait for the tissue paper to dry, then peel off the tissue paper and you’ll have a great reveal! I was surprised how vibrant the colors turned out.

Repeat the process with the second mitten. Emily thought this was so cool!

We added a little trim to our mittens. You know, since we were having so much fun, and all!

Outline your paintings with black marker for a nice finishing touch.

Beautiful, frugal, and without all the mess of paint!