When something wet splatters, that means it spills or sprays or splashes out all over the place. And a splatter is a messy spill of something liquid.
Check out how this pink paint splatters against the girl, the canvas, and the wall. What a wonderful mess! Now there are pink splatters all across the canvas and the wall.
Some kids love to get in the bathtub and splatter the water all over the walls and the floor. That makes a huge mess! And if you splash water onto your face like this, you'll probably splatter some on the counter and the floor.
I once splattered almost an entire bucket of dark gray paint onto a beige rug. It was a terrible mess! In the end, I couldn't clean up the splatters: all I could do was hide them!
Splattering is almost always very messy, and almost always an accident. Here's Jimmy splattering an egg on his face. Do you think he did it on accident?
Now, although splattering is usually an accident, you can also create art on purpose by splattering paint, like we saw a moment ago with the pink paint. And here's a splatterpainted sweatshirt. As you can see, the design suggests that someone has splattered the paint on purpose.
Remember: to splatter is to slosh or spill onto a surface, spreading out and making a big, wet mess.
Idea 1: "Rain splattered onto our faces as we (did something), (singing or laughing wildly)."
Idea 2: "As I struggled to carry the (container of some sort), it was so full of (some kind of liquid or sauce) that some of it splattered onto (my shirt, or the floor)."
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