Magnetic Marble Paintings

This project is similar to marble painting but using a magnetic wand and magentic marbles allows children to create more intense and intentional movements with the marbles.

You will need:
A metal sheet pan
Magnetic wand
Magnetic marbles
Two colors of paint
Paper

We used magnetic marbles from a Magnetix building set.

Place a piece of paper over the metal sheet pan.
We tried using a large plastic lid from a large storage container and a cardboard box but the sheet pan worked the best by far. It was smooth and kept a strong contact between the marble and the magnet wand.

Add a small amount of paint in opposite corners. Adding some marbles to each color.

With the blue and yellow project we used 10 marbles. With the red and blue project we used only two marbles. We noticed when using a larger number of magnetic marbles they would become magnetized and begin sticking to each other. We needed break them up with a slight jolt from time to time.

The artist named this piece "Color Clash"