Materials:
- Watercolor Paper
- Watercolor Paints
- Oil Pastels
- Paintbrushes
- Pencils
1. I prefolded all the paper first to have 6 rows.
2. Students open up and fold in half in the other direction like a "hot dog," and again once more like a hot dog. They should have ended up with 4 rows, and 24 boxes total.
3. Review the alphabet with them and write a letter nice and large in each box. Two rows will have to have 5 letters.
Demonstrate how to outline parts of each letter with an oil pastel. Emphasize to use a lot of colors so that it looks like this!:
4. Explain how oil and water don't mix and paint in the boxes : - ).
Simple idea with such nice results - I like it! Wouldn't it be fun to "bind" the quilts with fun patterned borders? - just a thought...
ReplyDeleteWhat size paper do you use?
ReplyDeleteI used 18" x 24", and actually... shh- I didn't even use watercolor paper. I don't have a lot of watercolor paper and didn't want to use it for this project, so I actually just used drawing paper. I think they turned out more colorful than I expected!
ReplyDeleteAnd Phyl, I love that idea!