December 23rd, 2008 Unplugged project: Dark/light Posted by Melitsa in Homemade, play activities, Seasonal play

With the holidays it seem like the perfect time to complete a project together…

Unplug your kids have a weekly unplugged project that you can join in by adding to their Mr. Linky. You can go see all the other unplugged projects. It’s a lot of fun to come up with a project on a theme for your little one.

My initial thought was some painting as we hadn’t done that for a while. Then I remembered we’d tried some crayon resist before with some success. We looked out the window at all the snow. The middle one suggested we paint a snowman.

Alas this time our ideas didn’t work out. We were trying to reproduce a snowman at night time( dark) and during a blizzard( light).

MO working on snowman. Star to right and full moon to left

BO’s snowman is on a hill

After pressing hard with the dark crayon. We mixed up the watercoloured paint and painted.

Even though we can see the snowman scene that’s just the flash working. It was much harder to see where to paint and draw. They held it up to the light a lot.

Repeat on white paper with white crayon.

Although we didn’t get the crayon resist we were hoping for we had fun drawing our magic pictures and playing around with the paint. If you’d like to try your own crayon resist try here for a better result.

Next weekly unplugged project: Wrapping paper.

Melitsa Avila is a former teacher, mother of three boys and military wife who talks about living an intentional play lifestyle using practical and everyday play activities to do with the under 5s. She publishes related ebooks & newsletters. Melitsa is the host and producer of a weekly Early Childhood radio show: Raising Playful Tots bringing parents and carers together with Early childhood practitioners. Thanks for reading!

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