Today on the blog, I'd like to introduce you to the fabulous Tricia, from Two Big Two Little. If you haven't checked out her blog yet, you must go and have a look. Here she is generously sharing with us a fun and magical Crayon & Water Colour Resist Painting activity.  

I'll turn it over to her now... Enjoy! Debs :) 

Hi! I'm Tricia from Two Big Two Little, where I share crafts and activities, with the occasional DIY project, that I do with my children. 

My kids range in age from 1 to 15, so we usually have a variety of end results to everything :) Usually just the girls, one big and one little, do the crafts and activities although every once in a while the big and little boys join in on the fun :)  I'm very excited to be guest posting here at Learn with Play at home today :)

The girls were bored the other day and looking for something to do. I remembered doing this type of painting when I was little, so I thought we would give it a try. 

 To do a crayon and water colour resist painting, you colour a picture with crayons. 

Then paint over the crayon drawing with water colours. 

We used diluted liquid water colours, but I'm pretty sure you could use the dried water colour pucks. The paper that we used was water colour paper. Any thick type of paper would work. These look really neat if you use white crayon on white paper, as the drawings only show up after being painted. :) White crayon was a little tricky to use, as it was hard to tell what you had drawn or whether you have coloured something completely or not. Sammie's picture and my picture. Mine doesn't look like it haa much on it, but once it was painted, you could see what I had drawn :)

Sammie decided that she didn't want to paint over top of her picture. I'm not sure if she was worried that the painting would ruin it or if she just wasn't in the mood for painting that day. Maddie picked purple paint for her picture. She's almost finished with the painting part :)

Mine and Maddie's finished paintings :)

Maddie decided to make some more of these paintings. She made these ones on paper plates :) I think they turned out great :)

If you like this post, please join Two Big Two Little at our Facebook page for more fun ideas. If you have completed one of our crafts or activities, we would love for you to share a photo on the Facebook page :) You can also follow us on Pinterest :)  Thanks, Tricia.

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I remember loving stencils as a child and spending hours making pictures and scenes by tracing inside the small shapes.

Whilst we have tried a bit of stencilling and tracing, it is still a bit fiddly for my toddler and she ends up getting frustrated with it.

 Here we decided to use watercolour paints with our stencils so that she could more easily create the little pictures whilst still practicing the coordination required to hold the stencils in place while filling in the inside.

Ta-daaa! Look at the shapes!

Some tips:

- Start with very basic shapes with very young children and use the experience to not only practice their coordination and fine motor skills but also to talk about the colours being used and the shapes they are making

- Extend this activity by cutting out the shapes once dried to use in a story, craft or picture OR cover a large piece of paper with your water coloured stencil shapes and use as wrapping paper.

- Make your own stencils by cutting shapes out of thick cardboard

- Talk with your child about what they are doing. This will help them understand the physical and mental processes they are going through as well as giving them the vocabulary to describe it.

- Listen to your child talk as they go through their experiences. This will help you determine where they are at with their learning, knowledge and understanding and help you to develop the activity (or future activities) to their level and interests.


Debs :)

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