Your child can move the paint and make designs but there is no mess. If you put 2 or more colors in a bag you can experiment with mixing colors. Colored Bubbles 1 cup granulated soap or soap powder 1 qt. Staple about 20 strips, of different colored tissue paper, one inch wide and about 12 inches long to the tube of cardboard found in the inside of waxed paper containers 2. Using a stapler, staple ends of paper to the end of the tube.
Noisemakers Put a few beans or marbles in an aluminum pie pan.
Then place another upside-down over the first pie pan and staple along the edges. Make one for each child. If made out of paper plates the children can decorate them. Yarn Decorations Place glue-soaked yarn around a blown up balloon in a decorative pattern. Then the children can play matching games, finding similar items such as trucks, trees, animals or just dots.