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Archive for April 2008

Watercolor art

Posted by: -M on: April 23, 2008

This is an homage to my elementary school teachers, who had us doing this just about every year until about 5th grade.
Materials needed:

paper- we use unlined composition notebooks for our artwork, because it’s easy to keep everything together.
kids watercolor set
light colored crayons like white, yellow or light green.

Step 1:
Have your kid(s) draw pictures on [...]

Once-a-day book of colors

Posted by: -M on: April 16, 2008

This is a fun, everyday project for you to do with your kids while you teach them their colors. There are 13 colors, so this will give you a good week and a half of planned fun.
Materials needed:
Old magazines
Scissors
Glue
Crayons
Ziplock bag to hold magazine clippings
Appropriate ages:
18 months-3
Cut out all color pictures a day or two [...]

Ooh the colors, man…

Posted by: -M on: April 15, 2008

For this lesson we mixed science and art. I dub it hippy art because, well, you’ll see.
Materials Needed:

Watercolor paint. I used tubes of watercolors- you can buy some here:

1 Plastic sheet [...]