Easy Mess-Free Painting Activity for Babies

Here is the world’s simplest and easiest mess-free painting activity for babies! It will take you longer to find these supplies around your house than it will to actually prepare the activity.

The only thing easier would be giving your baby a closed tube paint to play with. 🤣 Which, honestly my kid might enjoy because she currently has a weird obsession with her tube of butt paste. 🙈🤷🏼‍♀️ (I don’t actually recommend giving your baby a tube of paint, or butt paste for that matter, to play with.)

I 100% did not need to make a 55 second video out of this but I was filming and photographing it anyways because I am an art teacher and these were Emme’s first moments with paint. lol. I did this back in May but finally made the video this week! So without further ado, here is a mess-free painting activity for babies. Let your baby enjoy mixing paint without the added work of giving them a bath after, or the risk of them eating the paint!

Of course, please supervise baby when they do this, there is always a risk the paint escapes the bag somehow!

For more free art education blog posts, click here. To sign up for my art education email list, go here!

Don’t forget to pin this for later!
Scroll to Top