Jan 19, 2011

Swimming Sea Turtles

Inspiration: The activity is inspired by an activity in this book http://www.amazon.com/Usborne-Book-Art-Ideas/dp/0746038291 which has a lot of great activities.

These swimming sea turtles were created by some grade 2s a couple of years ago. They began by drawing their turtle and colouring in oil pastels. We then scrunched up the drawings into a ball (you should've seen some of the faces when I told them they had to do that!) to create an interesting texture. Once sufficiently flattened out again, students painted on a blue dye wash which gave them a wax resist and THEN we sprinkled on salt and watched the amazing watery patterns it created in the background! A fun project for challenging students to experiment with different mediums and techniques.



3 comments:

  1. These are beautiful! I will definitely be cataloging this into my mental repertoire :-) Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Hi, Can you tell how to do the blue dye wash using salt?

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    1. Hi Emily, the dye we use is called Edicol dye, which is pretty much a diluted food colouring dye. Paint on something like this over the oil pastel or crayon and then sprinkle on normal table salt whilst dye is still wet.

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