BENGALURU: It’s amazing how you can reinvent household discard-ables to keep your little one occupied.Fingerpaints, watercolours and the likes are a rage with kids these days. How they love to smudge themselves with colours!
As a child, I had such wishes too, that I get a room full of paper and run with paint on my feet, and hands. No reprimanding teachers, no worry about spoiling my uniform. Making your own palette can help them be organised! Use household plastic lids. You don’t need scissors. You do not need needles. Nothing. Just some multi-surface glue or super adhesive, and maybe some sandpaper, besides of course the lids of bottle caps of different sizes.
I used the lid of a box of diameter approximately six inches. You can find such plastic boxes in stores that sell packaged curd, batter or other foods.
Scout around home for smaller size lids of various bottles. Wash them all thorough, and get to work.
Materials required:
1. A large lid for the base of the palette 2. Glue (multi-surface) or super glue 3. Smaller size bottle caps of an inch or less in diameter4. Sanding paper (optional)5. Tissue paper (just in case you spill glue)