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Mouse
Painting added 9-9-01
Original Author Unknown
Need: Cat
toy mice, paper, paint
Directions:
Purchase several cat-toy mice, those furry ones are especially realistic.
Have the children dip them in paint to paint their paper.
Mouse Shape
added 9-9-01
Original Author Unknown
Need: Finger-paint
paper, paint
Directions:
Make a mouse shape, or have the children cut their own "mice" out of
finger-paint paper. Using finger paint or ice paints in red, blue, and yellow, let the children see what
colors they can make.
Color Fun added 9-9-01
Original Author Unknown
Need: Blue,
red, and yellow cellophane, glue, and paper
Directions: Make
little mice shapes out of blue, red, and yellow cellophane. Let the
children glue these "mice" onto a white sheet of construction
paper. Watch them as they explore making new colors by overlapping
the mice!
Tissue
Paper Collage added 9-9-01
Original Author Unknown
Need: Tissue
paper, clear contact paper, yarn, hole punch
Directions: Have
the children use scissors to cut colored sheets of tissue paper into
smaller pieces, and use them to make a collage on clear contact paper. The
colors will blend and create areas of see-through and opaque. Punch a hole
in each child's color creation, and attach string for hanging.
No Mess added 9-9-01
Original Author Unknown
Need: Finger-paint
paper or wax paper, paint, plastic wrap, tape, white paper
Directions: Do
no-mess finger-painting. Put out finger-paint paper or wax paper,
and tape to the table. Drop on a few blobs of thick tempera paint or finger-paint.
Cover the paint with a sheet of plastic wrap, and tape down the
edges. Encourage the children to move the colors around with their hands
to mix. When they're done, take off the plastic wrap, and invite the
children to press sheets of white paper over the wet paint to make prints.
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