Spring flowers

Here in Phoenix it's a beautiful first day of spring! 

I decided it would be fun as an introduction to our spring 

theme if we made a garden of colorful flowers.

I set out  assorted colors of paint, small brushes, and small paper plates.

(I taped a stem to the back of each plate).

I also set out pompoms for the kids to glue (tacky glue works best)

 to center of the their flowers.

The flowers came out so cute, full of  bright colors! 

The kids had such fun painting 

 that we ended up with quite a large garden of flowers!

Supplies needed

 washable tempera paints 

paint pots and brushes

small paper plates

green construction paper

pom poms

tacky glue

Sparkly  rainbow paintings

Today we got out our watercolor paints, spray bottles and salt shakers

and ended up with colorful  sparkly paintings that are worthy of framing!

I first had the kids use the spray bottle of water and spray their paper.

 Then they went to work painting on the wet paper. 

It was great fun watching the colors run together.

Once they were pleased with their beautiful rainbow

 paintings they took the salt shaker and shook salt all over the painting. 

So much fun, such lovely pictures! 

Supplies needed

watercolor paints (I like a good quality paint such as crayola or prang)

water cups and paint brushes

salt shakers

white construction paper.