A Project For Baby Sister

Red Fish AKA my little art monster has been going CRAZY over our new art stuff. It's totally out of control. I thought we were done with the art yesterday but Red Fish had other plans. One of the new supplies we got was a whole ton of liquid watercolors. These are the most fun to use with kids because you can do a lot of different stuff with them. Plus they work much better than the little pots of color. I'm a big believer that if you give kids good supplies to work with they will like to create more because even little kids can tell the difference. We still have a lot of the cheap and easy stuff but I'm trying hard to give her a variety of stuff to work with. Its' hard sometimes because she still wants to put things in her mouth or make a huge mess and not everything comes washable and non-toxic. Happily this paint does.We had precut shapes that came in our new kit. First we colored them with a white crayon because the watercolor shouldn't stick to the wax. I think we soaked the papers too much though because the crayon didn't end up showing up. It didn't really matter though. Then we sprayed them with a little spray bottle of silver watercolor. The bottle was kind of hard for Red Fish to use so she gave up after awhile and just pointed at the areas she wanted sprayed. The paper shapes we were using are meant to bleed so Red Fish only had to touch the brush down and the colors would spread and bleed together. She LOVED it. She was out there painting for a solid hour. You could achieve the same effect by wetting your paper ahead of time so the paint bleeds.
I put the paint (diluted with water half and half) in an ice cube tray. I think Red Fish had as much fun mixing the colors in the little compartments as she did painting.

Then we wrote on the shapes and strung them into a banner to welcome home baby sister. I think we might make more of these into a mobile for Red Fish's new room.

Here they are up close.