painting over cereal boxes

prettypennies

Apologies if this is on wrong board. I have been making wheeled vehicles with my class out of cereal boxes, The children just have one session left to paint/decorate them. Any ideas how they can paint or decorate them easily. Will adding pva glue to the powder paint cover the shiny coating of the cereal boxes?

AnnieH

Yes mixing paint with pva should help it stick to the shiny cardboard.

Or you could paint it with acrylic paint straight onto it. That's very good, but it doesn't wash off if you make a mistake on the capret/clothes etc, so have to be more careful.

N9eav

Adding a drop of Fairy liquid to water based paint made it stick to glass, so there may be another option to assist with adhesion.

purplepurple

maybe you could try sticking tissue paper on the card using PVA - it will cover the area quicker than painting and will definitely stick to the card.... it would give it a nice glossy finish (bit like a shiny car!).....

andycarmi

HI. We do this at school not much help but maybe for next time!

We turn all the boxes inside out and reseal them. Much easier to paint on the grey side and no show of what the box use to be!

Are you yr2 by any chance!!

modgit

andycarmi wrote:

HI. We do this at school not much help but maybe for next time!

We turn all the boxes inside out and reseal them. Much easier to paint on the grey side and no show of what the box use to be!

Are you yr2 by any chance!!

Snap! that's what I was going to advise, my son did this project last year - yes it was year 2, and they turned theirs inside out, and it worked really well. They even had a "vehicle display show" for us moms to pop in and see!

Have fun

Mishy

You can get some cool sheet of wrapping paper that will fit around the boxes and then get some stick on things for it.