Tag: watercolors
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Designing our Cakes (bakery project, 5)
Sometimes we stick to 2D art. Sharpies and watercolors are always a good choice. I am proud to say our kids have mastered the process. They know not to use sharpies once they start coloring the picture in with watercolors. They know that if they count to 10 while picking up the paint with their brush,…
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Salt Snow Painting
Watercolors and salt – two of our favorite materials. We have done salt on watercolor paintings to see how the crystals soak up the pigment and water, we drizzled salt on glue and then touched it up with watercolors to see how they spread on the paper… but this was the first time we made…
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Leaf Making Factory
Watercolors and diffuse paper are always a hit. Sometimes we use pipettes and liquid watercolors, other times we do brushes and regular cake watercolors… but it is always fun for the kids. They love seeing how the ‘thirsty paper’ drinks up the paint. They love watching it spread by itself. They love to experiment with…
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O’Keeffe and Flowers
Painting flowers with Georgia O’Keeffe is always a big hit. We bring real flowers to the classroom. Kids choose the one that they like the most and explore it with magnifying glass to see all the little details. We talk about Georgia O’Keeffe and how she wanted people to notice flowers-and that is why she…
Artree: online preschool 