Secrets of WDWDiscuss Paintbrushes on TSI? in the Trivia and Games Forums forums; TSI = Tom Sawyer Island.
There's a pretty good list some of the more commonly used ones in this thread....
We tried and tried to find a paintbrush or a "bag of gold" and it just did not happen. We arrived on TSI at around 10:30A and worked our way around the whole thing and there was nothing. We finally asked a CM about these items and he said that there had been a lot of internet chatter about this neat little extra and since mid spring all of the hidden items were gone by the first hour of opening. What a bummer, but great for those who found them. The secret is getting there early.
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I was there one time as soon as TSI opened (10am). I was on the first raft over, I was the first person off the boat and onto the island... and I still didn't find any. A family I rode over with found 3 of them though (I think there were 4 or 5 in total, and all were found within the first 20 minutes), and they gave me one of them to bring back over for my free fastpasses. How nice of them, don't you think?
I just happened to be lucky on this one, but about a month ago I was over on TSI at around 430 in the afternoon, my girlfriend and I were just coming over from fort langhorn and when we stepped off the bridge onto the walkway she spotted a paintbrush in the dirt just to the right of the path. This one was green, We took it to the CM and he gave us a fastpass for SM or TM. We're both 20 and we had no problem getting the pass, I actually wanted to give it to someone younger but everyone on the island at that time of the day was around our age. Oh, Mainstreet USA, they also have green and orange paintbrushes in addition to the red and blue, the one we found was green and I've seen orange ones turned in as well. Maybe these are the new ones you were talking about.