Dig out the crayons. In fact, make the kids scour the
house looking in the nooks and crannies for all the
crayons they can find, with the promise of fun crafts
when they find all of them!
You'll need:
crayons
paper
colored markers
water color paint
paper clips
First activity
Use crayons to draw a nice picture, but
make sure you press down hard as you are drawing,
and don't color in the background of the picture. Next
paint the entire picture, going over top of the picture
and the background. Let the picture dry!
Second activity
Give each kid a piece of paper and a
crayon, then send them all over the house or yard
to find different "textures", such as a brick or patio
stones etc. They should lay their paper over it and
color so the texture shows on the paper. Tell them
not to let the other kids see what they are using, and
when they have their papers full come back to the
kitchen, or wherever you have them playing. Now
they all need to guess what the textures really are!
Third activity
color a piece of paper with different
colored markers-making a patchwork type effect
that covers the entire paper. Take a black crayon
and scribble a large section in the middle of the
paper-size doesn't matter. The black should be
pretty heavy, so you can't see the marker colors
through it. Use a paper clip or a something hard
that will scrape, and make designs in the black
section. Where you scrape the colors will show
through!
About the Author:
Brenda Hyde is Mom to three little ones, a freelance writer
and editor here at OldFashionedLiving.
