Fidget poppers for a paint palette!

I can’t take credit for this idea. I saw it on reddit somewhere, but I love it! Using silicon fidget poppers for paint palettes.

I don’t use the fidget poppers for all my paints, I still definitely use a wet palette. The fidget popper is fantastic for speed paints, high contrast paints or metallic paint. You can’t put those paints on a wet palette because the metallic paints have literal metallic particles in them that you don’t want to get on your wet palette and speed paints or contrast paints tend to just run.

Putting these sort of paints into a fidget popper is the perfect way to:

• Not use too much of the paint

• Easily clean it out as the paints do not stick to silicon

• Or when the paint dries, you have the fun of popping it out!

You can pick up fidget poppers almost anywhere these days, but I personally like the small ones and I got these from Amazon. If you want the same ones I have, here is our Amazon Affiliate link to them: https://amzn.to/4bMfTnc

The reason I like the small ones are:

• Small amounts of paint used, so not as much wastage

• Small holes means the paint doesn’t really go anywhere and stays in one spot

• I can use multiple at a time for different colours

• Small separate palettes means I can clean them out individually and not waste paint. If I used a fidget popper with heaps of holes on it, I have to throw out or clean up every paint colour, rather than just separate the colours across different palettes.