Experimenting with Watercolours in JK

Due to the weather we had a small group on Thursday.  We decided it would be fun to experiment painting using watercolours.  The students learned how to hold the brush so they had control of it and how to make it dance on the paper and not scrub it too hard. We began with a small piece of watercolour paper that we soaked in water and blue watercolour paint.  They loved the wet-on-wet technique and how the paint spread and ran on the damp paper. 

For fun, we decided to sprinkle the wet paper with salt and see what happened.

This is what we learned:

Harmony: Looks like water.

Payton:  We learned how to hold the brush so we don't get paint on our fingers.

Lauryn:  When we put salt on our paper it did weird things.

Emma:  I made a blue sky and grass.

Tye:  The paper had to be wet.

James:  I learned we hold the brush by pinching it.

Lexi:  I used a paint stick to put on blue paint.

Lacey:  Looks like clouds.