Painting beans

While letting the kids paint today I had an idea to paint the pinto beans I had put back to use for a counting game. (Have a bag of pinto beans, and an egg crate, and permant marker. Write the numbers in the bottom of the buckets and then have fun with the kids putting the right number of beans, beads, etc. into the buckets. also good for sorting colors, shapes, etc.)
Anyways. I had just planned on using the regular pinto beans to count out into the right buckets with the kids. Then I thought I could go a step farther and paint the beans, then we can sort by numbers, and colors in the same game!

Of course, with the kids helping they aren't perfect! But they loved helping and once they are in bed tonight I will finish them up and then have the game ready for tomorrow!