Saturday, December 4, 2010

Color Ornaments



My cute neighbor who lives across the street from me came up with the idea of mixing the primary colors in ornaments for the class she is art mom for.  I loved the idea and yesterday she came over and we experimented in my kitchen.  

She bought these wonderful PLASTIC bulbs (isn't plastic such a blessing) and some acrylic paint in red, yellow, blue, white, and black.  She also bought some glitter.  

What we learned during our experiment was: 1.  It was much easier to get  the paint to swirl around the bulb if we rinsed it out first with water, because the water was able to thin out the paint a bit.  2. 
The glitter gave the bulb a speckled look.  (You can see that in the red bulb above.) 

I haven't followed up with my neighbor to find out how the kids liked it, but I noticed that when we were working together that we were having a blast.  I can't imagine that 5th grade class being sad during art this day.

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