Discovering Splatter Painting

I gave Xander an activity that he liked more than I thought he would, although he has only spent about five or ten minutes on it.

Ingredients:
(shallow) bucket of water
clean paintbrush

I set him to work "painting" the fence. He had a good time discovering the look and feel of newly "painted" wood. Then he started flicking the paintbrush at the fence and saying, "Look! Look! Look what I did!"

Aha. I discovered a nice add-on Stage Two. I had him dump the rest of the water on our sidewalk and put him to work "painting" the sidewalk. He tired of that quickly but now his younger brother is occupied with it. ;)