Art with Crayons

Have not posted much on indoor projects for a long time. Not that we haven't been doing any, we have been, but more focused on painting. Anyway, here's a terribly simple one, in fact, I'm sure you're gonna go, "Oh, this? I've done it before. Nothing new." Well...here goes anyway....

You  need Crayons..obviously

Completely cover the paper with your favourite colours

Colour over the colours with BLACK

Using a toothpick, scratch out your pictures

Jo's work

Nel's work

Beware, very dirty hands after, so you don't want them touching any of your sofas!!

 
@Martha, 2011

Painting with soil. Cave Art

Cave Art is fun!

1) Start by searching for different coloured soil. Remember, as you dig deeper, the soil colour, quality,  and type changes.  When we did this project, we collected  6 different types of soil, thus creating 6 shades of brown to paint with. Amazing how much variety there is with soil alone!

2)  Next pound the soil using mortar or large stones, as they probably did in the old days. Sieve the large stones out. Children love this part and have lots of fun! The girls especially think it's like masak-masak (cooking.)

3)Once soil is pounded,  mix in some water and a bit of vegetable shortening/oil.

4)  The Paint is now ready! You first create the outline of your picture by using charcoal, then paint over with  "soil paint".

pounding soil

Outline with Charcoal. This is Little Du's buffalo. :) (LOVE his drawing!!)

Dd's completed painting.

 this is mine..when I showed the children how to do one.

All in all, it is an enjoyable project, easy to do and fun. :) Do try it! however, be forewarned that it can be messy, coz when children's imagination go wild, they CAN do a lot of other things with the soil!  :)

(Group projects are really fun. I think, more worthwhile than going for tuition after tuition.)

Painting with flour paint

This is a really easy, and incredibly fun project to do OUTDOORS.

Mix flour with water till totally dissolved, forming a creamy consistency. Split your water flour solution into several parts and add food colouring. Walla...flour paint! :)

Four shades of flour paint

dripping paint with fingers



splattered paint with finger/hand prints



Feeling the texture is kinda therapeutic

To produce the above, I used a big brush, dropped paint and gently moved the paper to shape the flow of colour. the nice thing is that it flows very slowly so you can really shape it.

Close look at the texture of the paint. Lovely isn't it?

 

 Love this piece of art by Junee who joined in the fun by using several methods. Her picture depicts some earthworms coming to the surface after the rain. Lovely!

This was created by swirling the paint and scraping the paper, using old credit/name cards

                           Using old fashion paint brush to paint this.

N used a smaller  brush, dripped paint and controlled its flow to create this boat with a square sail.

ENJOY YOUR PROJECT! :)