Spring gardens

Today at the art table we sponge painted lovely gardens. 

I decided to add white paint to the primary colors of  paint which made 

nice shades of pastels for the gardens.Whenever I put sponge

 painting out I always hot glue my sponges to cups or  medicine bottles

to make handles for sponges. This way they are much easier 

for the kids  to print with and the paint does not end up all 

over their hands! I set out large pieces of construction paper 

and encouraged the kids to fill up their paper with lots of colorful flowers.

They enjoyed  sponging the flowers close together so their  flowers

 would touch each other. They figured out how the small  flowers could be 

the centers of their large flowers. They had a great time with 

sponge painting, and were very proud of their gardens!

Supplies needed

flower shaped  sponges

washable tempera paint

shallow bowls for the paint

large white construction paper