Tiptoeing turtles in tall grass.
Today the kids had lots of fun tearing, painting and gluing tiptoeing turtles into tall grass. I started out by adding construction paper and tissue paper in different shades of green to the art table for the kids to tear. Tearing is a great fine motor skill for little ones. And oh how they love ripping and tearing paper. Once we had ripped up lots of tall grass we glued it onto our brown construction paper. Next it was off to get smocks on and begin sponge painting our turtles. I clipped pieces of sponges onto clothes pins, and added them to shallow bowls of paint . We chose green and brown paint for our turtles.The kids loved covering their turtles with both colors of paint and seeing the paint mix together. Remember its the process rather than the product that matters in art. We didn't worry about how the turtles looked instead we allowed them to enjoy mixing the greens and browns if they wanted to. Some kids do and some don't! After they were dry we added eyes, nose, a mouth and glued the turtles in the tall grass.
Supplies needed--
Brown construction paper
Assorted shades of green paper
Half a paper plate for each child (we added a head and feet before the kids painted the turtles)
Brown and green paint
Sponges clipped on clothespins
Winkey blinky eyes
Glue sticks
So cute!
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