Opposites

C is always proclaiming the day as "opposite day"!  I think this originated with an episode of Little Bear, but now it is a regular occurrence.  Black? White! Day? Night! by Laura Vaccaro Seeger is a fun book of opposites.  My kids love to lift the flaps (very cool die-cut pages) to see how black becomes white, day becomes night, narrow becomes wide, and more.  Seeger is an incredibly clever author; we love Lemons are not Red and First the Egg by her too.  We have read all of these books quite a few times.

We focused on black and white for our book project.

C and R folded a black piece of construction paper in half and then painted one side of the paper with white paint.  I helped them fold the paper to reveal the opposite of their painting on the other side of the paper.

This is C's creation; he said it is a butterfly:

Here is the work of art by R:

They also made collages placing black paper, buttons, pom poms, and googly eyes on white paper.

Notice that R added a pink button to her collage.  I guess she thinks everything needs a little pink!
Do you ever have opposite day in your house?