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Paint with Dough Cutters

By Shaunna Evans 4 Comments · This content may contain affiliate links.

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My girls love to paint. They paint almost daily. In the past we’ve shared all sorts of ways to paint. Recently while setting up a craft activity we grabbed some dough cutters to explore what kinds of designs we could make with them, and they turned out really neat!

Creative Ways to Paint-Painting with Dough Cutters

We had some very basic round dough cutters, but if you have a play dough cutter set (affiliate link) with different blades then that would add even more fun to the experimentation process.

Painting with Dough Cutters

It helps to use a large enough paint tray that allows the kids to roll the cutter back and forth through the paint. If the blade edge is fully covered with paint (as opposed to just part of the edge), then the design will come out more clearly.

Preschool Painting Activity-Dough Cutters

As the girls worked they explored how much paint they needed to make thick lines.

Painting without paint brushes-play dough tools

They also painted in different directions. This is one of their completed works.

Dough Cutter Painting

After they were done we brainstormed some other paint uses the might use the cutters for in the future. Lovey didn’t even wait to try her idea out. She used them right away to make grass for a painting she’d started earlier that day.

Painting with Dough Cutters~Creative Art for Kids

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  1. Lynn Gibson

    June 28, 2024 at 12:17 pm

    Where can I find the plastic pizza cutters? Lynn gibson lgibson@vbgov.com

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    • Shaunna Evans

      July 11, 2024 at 10:27 am

      Most clay and play dough cutting tool sets have a few rolling cutter options in them. I pulled ours from those sets.

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  2. Clarissa

    November 14, 2014 at 12:26 am

    What a great idea! I never would have thought to use the dough cutter for painting but it turned out a quite lovely picture! Thinking they would make cute turkey feathers for a Thanksgiving picture 🙂 Pinning.

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  3. Mary Catherine

    November 13, 2014 at 5:42 pm

    Oh I just LOVE this art idea, thank you! I know some kiddos who are going to have a blast trying out this technique. 🙂

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