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Spell Bee Word: Paintbrush


What does paintbrush mean?

Word: Paintbrush

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Paintbrush means a tool with soft hairs on a handle, used to put paint on paper, walls or other things.

Synonyms: brush

How do you spell paintbrush?

Syllables: paint - brush

Tricky part: Paint is spelt with ai, though children often drop the i and write pant.

Watch out for: pantbrush, paint brush

Memory tip: Paint keeps its a and i together, like two colours mixed side by side on a palette.

Paintbrush in a sentence

Example 1: Wash your paintbrush before you dip it in another colour.

Example 2: I used a thin paintbrush for the tiger's stripes.

Example 3: Papa needed a wide paintbrush to paint the door.

Fun Fact

Many of the finest watercolour paintbrushes are made from kolinsky hair, which comes from the tail of the Siberian weasel.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) sketchbuk
b) crayans
c) watercolur
d) paintbrush

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d) paintbrush. Crayons, sketchbook and watercolour are the proper spellings of the other three.

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) paintbrush
b) paintbursh
c) paintbroosh
d) paintbrusch

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a) paintbrush. In the second half, the r comes straight after the b, then u, with nothing added.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

pain_bru_h

a) t, s
b) t, z
c) d, z
d) d, s

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a) t, s. Paint ends with a t, and the second blank takes an s.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

shubritnap

a) painbtrush
b) paintbruhs
c) paitnbrush
d) paintbrush

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d) paintbrush. Paitnbrush, paintbruhs and painbtrush all keep the ai but swap two letters next to each other.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Artists mix their colours on a ____ before picking up the paintbrush.

a) palette
b) sketchpad
c) easel
d) canvas

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a) palette

2. The soft hairs at the end of a paintbrush are its ____.

a) bristles
b) feathers
c) needles
d) threads

Show answer

a) bristles

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Next steps

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