Saturday, November 23, 2013

Kids Art Projects

Art Projects

In my daughter's class today they did a fun art project with water colors and oil pastels. They first drew with the oil pastels a sun and rays that all went to the edge of the paper. Then they water colored over the top, different colors in the different rays. The oil pastels repelled the water color which had a fun effect.

The class also did fabric mosaics earlier in the day, as part of their fabrics unit. They have been using fabrics to learn about textures and observing details. One activity they did with this was shoe boxes with holes cut in them, with lots of fabrics with different textures. The kids got to feel the different textures without seeing them. For this activity each child was given a black square of paper (probably about a 6"x6"). They were then given fabric squares about 1"x1" up to 3"x3" in size, of all different textures and colors. They used Elmer's glue and covered the papers with fabric until no paper showed. The kids  

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