If you are a creative person who missed this announcement, the next One Yard Wonders book is in the call for submissions phase, deadline is April 15 (Oh, I thought it was March 15th, I have LOADS of time left, phew! Unlike last time when I somehow didn’t find out until a week before the deadline…)
They are looking for projects focusing on children this time, so check out their call for submissions, I know all you crazy people are full of great ideas for kids!
This is a most excellent project that we did in April of last year, but slipped through the posting cracks. And as I am in the throws of teaching Arts Focus I’m forgetting to even photograph our current Friday Art Playgroups!
Melting the crayons on the hot rocks is absolutely addictive and wonderful and tactile and drippy and amazing.
Great directions at 5 Orange Potatoes, I feel no need to write my own.
I am thinking about adapting this to Easter eggs, but blown they wouldn’t hold the heat to melt crayons on (and not blown they don’t last long). But we’ve learned that you can put crayons into a glue gun, so I’m thinking blown eggs + crayons in glue gun. Yes? And then perhaps over dyeing? Oh, and glitter into the melted crayon? What was your favorite egg craft from last year? What, it’s still February? I guess I’m getting ahead of myself…
This is a project I’ve been doing with Penelope (2). Give them two primary colors and let them go.
We’ve finished all three sets now, yellow/cyan, cyan/magenta, and magenta/yellow.
She likes all the little paint holes filled, and it gives more chances to mix up the true colors.
A pet peeve, although the three primaries are supposedly red, yellow and blue, with paint they are really the specific red yellow and blue of magenta, yellow and cyan (turquoise). Red and orange can both be mixed from magenta and yellow, but if you’ve tried to mix a really vibrant orange from red and yellow, it’s only sorta satisfying, and if you are trying to mix green, royal blue and yellow are totally unsatisfactory and give you a sort of washed out forest-y sort of green, whereas with cyan and yellow you can get a nice bright green. And yet, when you buy kids paint in ‘primaries’ you get the not so useful fire truck red, royal blue, and yellow. Why do you think printer ink comes in cyan, magenta, yellow and black? Yah. /rant.
Next up we will work on tints and shades. Yah, I’ve been re-reading Young at Art by Susan Striker.
Also, can you tell that I’m teaching Arts Focus at Rebecca’s school again? Things will be back to normal in a few more weeks.
Scatter brained crafty mama. I craft with a little bit of everything, during those precious nap time minutes.
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