April

Make it Easy!

Needed: one old stocking, uncooked rice , 8" x  11" paper (or larger), watercolor paint & tray, and an old shirt for your artist.  The tray can be an old baking sheet, or cake pan, but plastic is the best.

We're going "bounce" a masterpiece!

Fill the stocking with a 1/2 lb of rice and tie the stocking around the "knee" length.  Cut off the top part of the stocking above the knot.  Make a puddle for each of the paint colors  (red, yellow, blue) on the tray.  Dip the stocking-ball in one of the paints and “bounce” gently on a sheet of paper to make an all-over design or a pattern.

Option:  Use a balloon filled with water.  Knot it, and follow the instructions above.

Children may want to mix two colors together.  Let them.  They can learn that red and blue make purple; red and yellow make orange; and blue and yellow make green.

Always remember, its the doing not the end product that counts.