In my previous post, I shared with you how we explored the book “I See A Song” by Eric Carle. Â This book is filled with lots of shapes and design that overlap each other and emerge into different scenes along the way…
We used this book as a springboard to not only explore music, as I shared in this post, but to explore overlapping shapes on our easel…
The children called out different shapes and as they did, I drew them on our dry-erase board then the children stopped by and colored in different sections of our shapes…
Then the children went off to draw their own shapes with crayons and papers…
To create our shapes and oil artwork, the children started by drawing their own shapes with crayons on paper…
Once they created their shapes, the children took their paper to another table that was set up with cups of vegetable oil and sponge brushes…
The children used the oil to cover their drawings and the entire paper. The oil made the drawings shiny and very pretty to look at…
Once the drawings were completely covered with oil, we set them in between sheets of paper towels to soak up some of the excess oil…
Then the drawings were set out on a table to air dry over the weekend. Â It is hard to tell in these photos, but the oil makes the paper feel almost like wax and the oil also makes the paper almost transparent…
A simple activity with a pretty cool effect for the children to explore…
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