My family and I recently checked out the open house for The Art School of Peterborough. We saw an ad in the newspaper re: art classes for tots. How could we not enroll her? The studio areas are clean, the instructors are friendly and she would be surrounded by artists who focus in different mediums. Another bonus: she gets to be around kids her age. More experience before she starts kindergarten in September.
Unfortunately, she missed her second class because of our fam getaway, so she was given homework. For our 3rd project, Leilani and I are going to create a landscape image using the scratch art technique.
-acrylic paint, black
-dish soap
-plastic tray
-paintbrush (I recommend a wide, flat brush)
-oil pastels or crayons
-cardstock (I recommend watercolour paper if you have)
-skewer or sharp stick
See all those bumpy things in the paint? Those were little chunks of dried paint that came from the paint bottle. Those little chunks will easily come off when dried, so try to remove them if you don't want blemishes. Leilani and I didn't care about precision in her drawing, so it was okay if a few spots came out.
TICK TOCK. I started this project before lunch. It didn't air dry until dinner time. TIP: Use a hair drying if you want it to dry faster.
SCRATCH! It's time to finally scratch! By holding the skewer near the base, you have more control and it's less likely to break. If you don't press hard enough, you just scratch the paint. The goal is to REMOVE the black paint. If it's too difficult for your child to break through the paint, guide her hand with yours and put pressure. Once your child finds a project too difficult, she'll stop. It's our job to calm them down, show them how to do it by example, then leave them be. That's what I had to do with Leilani.
Tidy up time.
The paint needs to go somewhere. When you scratch to remove the paint, your work surface will get dirty. As a parent, it's great to take part in their art projects. As a child, it's great to take part in cleaning up. I put my daughter to work and she held that vacuum like a boss!
@100ArtfulDays is a blog and Instagram series dedicated to the shared love of crafting between my daughter and I. We will focus on collaborative art projects that will further develop my daughter's fine motor, problem solving, speaking, and communication skills, improve her patience, learn and apply colour theory, and encourage her creative spirit.
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