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Home » Early Years Science » Painting with Syringes – Summer Art Project

Painting with Syringes – Summer Art Project

Modified: Mar 26, 2025 · Published: May 17, 2016 by Emma Vanstone · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

This colourful, messy summer art project is perfect for summer science in the garden. As well as generally having fun we decided to investigate whether the paint would travel further if we filled the syringe to the top compared to half full.

Syringe painting - summer art project

We discussed what we thought might happen before starting and talked about what factors we needed to keep constant to make it a fair test.

Painting with Syringes – Summer Art Project

Syringe Painting

What you need for syringe painting

Syringes

Paint

Long roll of paper

Syringe Painting

Roll out the paper, you’ll need it to be quite long!

Fill two syringes with different amounts of paint, we filled one to the top and one half full.

Squirt your syringes one after the other.

Observe how far the paint travels. This should be obvious by looking at the paint pattern, but you can also record the distance using a tape measure.

Setting up an investigation as a fair test

Variable

How much paint is in the syringe

Keep constant

The syringe must stay flat against the paper

Speed at which the syringe is pressed – we decided the most accurate way to do this was to have the same person press both using the same hand as fast as possible.

Type of paint.

Type of syringe

Syringe painting - summer art project

Top tip: Don’t fire the syringe into the air unless you want to make a big mess.

More Summer Art Projects

Creating splatter patterns is also a great fun summer art project.

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Last Updated on March 26, 2025 by Emma Vanstone

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  1. bonquisha

    May 26, 2016 at 11:09 am

    absolutely fab work

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