A Story + Art = A great stART!
The Very Quiet Cricket is written by Eric Carle. It is about a cricket who is born (hatched..or whathaveyou...) without being able to make a sound...he meets many creatures along his journeys...until he meets another cricket...then there is chirping... Ryleigh was not so into the story itself...but did like the illustrations.For our stART project this week, Ryleigh painted with water color and then added sea salt...to create a unique pattern....as the pictures in the story are also uniquely patterned. As the sea salt dried the water color...it removed the color and created a very pretty pattern...and I am in no way biased....well....maybe a little;)
Ryleigh painting
Sea salt being added
Sea salt starting to dry with the painting...
The finished project....the salt created the white in the painting...
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12 comments:
oo this is a really cool craft! I love the texture the sea salt created!
That's really cool how that happened! It's like science and art all in one!
wow1 what a great craft & idea! Looks like a cricket!
Great idea! I am a new follower! Great stArt!
I love the textue your painting ended up with - very neat technique!
I love the texture that the salt added. I think we will have to do this for art group!! It is funny that we both ended up using watercolors this week and didn't even know it :0)
That is really neat! I love what the salt did to the water colors!
Too cute. We love Eric Carle!
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Cool project! I saw that book at the library today. I knew Abby would have no interest in reading it, because there was a bug on the cover!
I know my daughter will enjoy experimenting with salt and watercolors. Thanks for the great tip.
This is a great idea to experiment with water colors - thanks for the tip. Anna didn't enjoy the book too much, but liked the scholastic short movie that we have on this book.
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