Since we can't just use the wind on any given day to make art ( in Arizona at least, we had to recreate a windy day, indoors! I set up an invitation to create with a fan at one end of the table, a piece of card stock taped town, and droppers in the watercolors. The little white containers I am using are wonderful! They are from a set of poster paints that Wal-mart sells. Once the paint was gone, I washed them out and filled them up with a rainbow of watercolors. These are the perfect size for these little water colors and droppers, and since they are all connected, not as easy to spill over!
The paint was dropped out in front of the fan, and to our surprise, there really wasn't much "wind painting action" to be had. The paint pretty much just went straight down!
Not to worry, the kids decided they could use straws to blow the paint around! There is something about little kids and straws that just don't mix unless you have spit involved. Most of the art we created this day involved spit laden paint. Gross, yes, however we did learn how to control our breathing so paint didn't go up the straw! Pretty soon the kids started seeing shapes in the paintings. Imagine cloud shapes, only with spit-paint!
Two of my students decided to take the adventure in wind painting even further by adding in other elements and tecniques! First, they tried squeezing the paint into the straw. Every color in the rainbow went in, and black brown came out! I just love the look on the cute little faces when they see this color mixing action.
After a GENEROUS amount of paint was on the paper, they decided to go ahead with print making. I cut up some smaller sheets of paper to use for this.
After getting the smaller paper on, one student liked it just like it was and decided it was going to stay there!
They were REALLY enjoying the moment and ended up with multiple pieces of art. It was fascinating to watch them create, explore and then reveal the art they made.
At one point another sweetie pie of a student brought them a snack, because artists sure do get hungry!
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