We have been reading a lot of books about flowers, so R made two different kinds of flowers with paint this week.
She began with hand and arm print tulips. First, she painted her forearm green and pressed it down on the paper to create stems.
Then she painted her hand and fingers (except the thumb) pink and pressed it down at the top of the stems.
She also used a small water bottle and dipped the bottom in purple paint and then stamped it on paper to create flowers.
I saw this technique on Valerie's Frugal Family Fun Blog. R LOVED doing this! When the paint dried, R used a dot marker to add yellow centers to her purple flowers. You can find a link for Do-a-Dot markers at the end of this post. We use them often and they last a long time! We love them!
R created quite the garden!
The books in the photo above are: Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert (We are big fans of Lois Ehlert!) and Rose: A Flower's Story by Joanne Randolph. I definitely recommend both books.
11 comments:
This turned out great! Like the colors too.
I've never heard of that first book, but Planting a Rainbow is one of Jack's very favorite right now.
I was looking through the pictures before reading, and was thinking that R was doing some impromptu painting like Princess, then I actually read and realized that was the whole plan. Great craft!
This craft turned out awesome! R is clearly not intimidated by a big canvas - she created a very beautiful garden. We love Ehlert too, and enjoyed reading this book as well.
that is so cute it turned out great and she picked suc pretty colors!
we love planting a rainbow and Rose a flowers story! :)
Is she putting this in her room! i be it looks like a secret garden in there with all her pretty flower crafts! :)
that is so cute it turned out great and she picked suc pretty colors!
we love planting a rainbow and Rose a flowers story! :)
Is she putting this in her room! i be it looks like a secret garden in there with all her pretty flower crafts! :)
that is so cute it turned out great and she picked suc pretty colors!
we love planting a rainbow and Rose a flowers story! :)
Is she putting this in her room! i be it looks like a secret garden in there with all her pretty flower crafts! :)
Hate to admit how many flowers I could make with all my bottles of diet coke! Next time my 9 year old gets mad at me for drinking soda I'll just tell her Im doing it so she can do an art project!! Perfect!!
Very cute... looks like lots of fun!
I LOVE the flower painting! That is such a neat idea. We read Planting a Rainbow last spring, and my son seemed to really enjoy it. The illustrations were beautiful, weren't they? Bookmarking this art project!
What a wonderful flower garden she created, and I'm so happy to hear that she loved painting with the soda bottle!! Yay!!! The books you picked out go along with this perfectly!
Oh goody!
Your kids paint themselves as well!
Love the activity!
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