When entertaining a crowd, few things break the ice and bring the party to life like a few cans of silly string placed in active hands. Inexpensive and versatile, you can use silly strings in almost every phase and activity during your party.

A great feature of the Silly String is the fact that it comes in every color of the rainbow. The large amount of color allows you to use many colors or in bulk, whittled down to just one or a couple to support a more specific color theme. For example, you can use all the available colors for a school or party theme that has to do with the rainbow. Another great place to incorporate lots of colors would be while teaching a lesson on color. With primary and secondary colors available, get the class involved by spraying the correct color in response to a question. You could ask a lot of different questions, like what secondary color does blue and red make? To get it right, a purple can of silly string would need to be sprayed. You could then ask what color complementary purple was, to which the answer would be yellow. I could go on and on, until your class has had a blast and thoroughly learned their basic color wheel.

Another artistic idea for using various colors of silly string is to make a large paint by number on a lawn, patio, or driveway. To draw the outline and numbers on the lawn, you can use spray paint, yard tape, and sidewalk chalk for the driveway or other cement surface. The internet is full of free and simple paint by numbers scenes that you can easily print and enlarge to a nice party size. For more precision, you may want to draw a grid on both the image you’ll be duplicating larger and the surface you’ll place the large image on. Just make sure that your numbering on the grid is correct and that the proportions are quite correct.

Depending on how old your artists are, you may want to color the image you used to draw the large reproduction and show it to them before you start the silly rope in the image so they have an idea of ​​what it should look like. result Also, in order not to have too much confusion, label the number corresponding to the color on each can and give each participant their own can or cans so that no one monopolizes the activity by being the fastest to grab each can.