In an effort to use every last drop of paint from these practically empty bottles:
I put a little bit of water in each one, shook it up and poured it into our paint tray (which is a muffin tin with applesauce cups stuck in it):
This made great liquid watercolors!
I found some simple Bob the Builder coloring pages online, printed them out and traced them onto regular printer paper with a white oil pastel crayon. I find that oil pastels work a bit better for this than regular wax crayons, but that is just my preference.
I put one paper in front of M, gave him some paintbrushes and he got busy. He loved the watercolors. I have to say, I think this worked so much better for us than the regular dry watercolors that you have to dip a wet brush in.
He was so surprised to see Scoop!
We did the same with two more pages (sorry no pictures!) and then he just painted on some papertowels:
We will definitely be doing this again – it was a very fun project!
Have a beautiful day! :)
oh great idea! I tried to do this the other day with water color paints and it took FOREVER for B to get enough paint on the page to see the image. Using these paints looks like a much better idea. We will give it a try! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteOh, this is SO clever!! You're awesome! I totally want to try this with Maddie when she wakes up from her nap. And, I love how you use the applesauce cups. What a great idea!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! Ill have to remember this when i need to use up my paints too!
ReplyDeleteWow! Love this!
ReplyDeleteWe never tried watercolors yet - liquid or otherwise. It sounds like such an awesome idea, and I really like your solution for a paint tray too!
ReplyDeletewe do that to our paints and my food coloring paste jars too! :)
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