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via RSSI wanted Rebecca to be involved in making the valentines for her classmates tomorrow, which is challenging, since we have to make 26ish of them, and that takes some stamina. At first I was planning on doing some stenciling, I cut out some hearts, and I wanted her to use the spray bottles of liquid water colors we have to paint hearts onto watercolor paper. But. For some reason when the girls use these they feel that they have to hold them really close to the paper, and anything other than fully covering to a drippy mess is unacceptable. So the first stencil was filled to overflowing with red watercolor paint. You can guess it didn’t come out looking like a heart. We moved on to plan 2!
On each piece of watercolor paper I drew a secret heart picture, nothing complicated, and Rebecca sprayed and painted watercolors over the top until she could see the whole picture. And yes, I did use a moving box as my backdrop, my house is covered in them! Should I be packing right now? Yes…
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Add Yours →These look great! Maybe I’ll manage to talk Emma into making a few valentines this way – she’s adamantly refused all of my other attempts this year. So much for expecting a repeat of her massive enthusiasm last year…
Good luck packing and unpacking all those boxes!
I love the secret drawing revealed by the paint, I will have to try this with my son! I finally tried your origami organizer project and was very happy with the result! Now I want to try it again with some fabric I actually like!
Sorry if this is obvious for others, but can I ask what did you use to draw the secret hearts? Thanks!
Oh! I didn’t say? White crayon. 🙂 Any kind of clear wax would also work, it is just a resist to keep the paper from absorbing the wet paint.
this is so clever! my daughters are still young, so we haven’t yet hit the full-on effect of making valentine’s for 20+ kids. this idea is a keeper!
Thanks so much! This year we almost bought princess valentines, but we traded them for the allure of a heart paper punch to make them instead. 🙂
These are such a fun and cute idea! I featured your post at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/LivingMontessoriNow
Thanks so much! I think it’s really interesting that you’re using Facebook as a blogging platform.
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