We did two water color activities:
1) Salty Watercolors from Marryann Kohls First Art Book
2) Open ended watercolor art!
Salty Water Colors:
Materials Needed: Card stock(I generally use card stock for art projects), water colors, paintbrushes, water, glue, salt
In the picture above, each child is on a different step (minus the waiting of course… that’s the hard part hehe)
Step 1: Add glue to your paper in the design you want.
Step 2: Sprinkle salt Above and then tilt salted paper back into salt dish to get rid of excess salt.
Step 3: Wait for it to dry for a little bit of time… blow it… talk..chat… for like 2 – 3 minutes.(You don’t have to wait for it to dry but I find that it comes out better if you do)
Step 4: Touch your paintbrush that has watercolor on it to the tip of the salt on your paper to watch the colors spread.
“Mama, my sleeves are too tight!!!”
Here are the finished pictures:
Deen’s is the one on the upper left corner… i have absolutely no idea where his salt disappeared to???
When these were dry they look BEAUTIFUL… they are very glittery and sparkly!
After this we did some Open ended watercolor art…
An Almost Unschooling Mom says
September 26, 2009 at 12:22 amThis is really neat. It's a new technique to me – looks like they had a good time with it.
Vone says
September 26, 2009 at 4:39 amNeat idea. I've saved the link in my inspiration file.
Nicole {tired, need sleep} says
September 26, 2009 at 5:42 amWe did this exact same activity just a couple of weeks ago! I love that book by MaryAnn Kohl (all books by her are pretty good, actually). The artwork turned out very pretty.
Cindy says
September 26, 2009 at 7:49 amWe will try the salt and glue watercoloring painting as soon as we can. It sounds so cool.
Raising a Happy Child says
September 27, 2009 at 1:09 pmI saw it on Nicole's blog a few weeks ago and felt that it's something that I absolutely have to try. I guess first I need to break out the watercolors in general – we never painted with them before 🙂