artsandcrafts

A few years ago, I decided to do my son’s room in a Spongebob theme.  We stained his dresser blue, did the bottom half of his wall with a chalkboard paint, and the top was a cool ocean blue color.  But I knew that we needed to have some bubbles painted on the wall to make it look right.  And for an even more realistic look and a better feature for a kid’s room, we did it with glow-in-the-dark paint.  It gives the bubbles a nice translucent sort of look.

To paint them, you’ll need several circle shapes, some glow in the dark paint, some silver paint, and a small paintbrush.  For the circle shapes, use different things like a dime, a quarter, a bottlecap, etc.  Using a pencil, trace around the biggest one at the bottom.  Do another above it, but as you go up the wall, stagger it so it looks like a stream of bubbles.  After two or three of each size, move to the next smaller size.  Stop after 6-10 bubbles, but just as you stagger them randomly, make sure to use different amounts of bubbles in each row.

Finish it up by putting a little gleam in each of the bubbles, to make it look like there’s a light shining on it.  Do this by painting a small rectangular shape with the silver paint in each of the bubbles.  Do this in the top corner, and make it proportional to the size of the bubble (bigger bubbles get bigger gleams of light).

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