Wednesday, December 23, 2015

A Different Kind of Tree

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A couple of weeks ago I set up this art activity that stayed up for just over a week; inviting the children to use watercolours to paint paper cut into Christmas lightbulb shapes.
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The easels are little cardboard bookstands from Scholastic.  Our school librarian gave some to me after our school book fair.
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The paint palettes I found at a thrift store, still in great shape.  Little cups of water provide the opportunity to observe how colours mix.
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I had thought that we would string the light bulbs up in the window but the paint was not as dark as I had thought.  So instead we used the photo tree and clipped them on to it to become a second Christmas tree in our room.
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By Christmas break the tree was full and there was a pile of paintings littering the table.
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What I always enjoy the most is seeing parent and child creating together and learning side by side.