Cloudette/Duck!Rabbit! Art Project

So, I'm sure you're wondering what it was that we did with our white paint and blue paper last week.

What we had planned to do...or what we actually did?

As you might know if you have preschoolers, the art is more about the process than the product.  I had planned to create our own Duck!Rabbit! ambiguous art masterpieces and have lively debate about what they were....but what we ended up doing was making our own Cloudettes.

Actually, they both ended up completely covering the paper in white paint. Q called it his "fog picture." They had a great time, it just wasn't exactly what I had envisioned. (When is anything, ever?)

Now, if you wanted to end up with more of a "product" experience, I would make the following modifications:

• Get older kids. :) I think 5 and 3 is on the lower end of the age range for this to be effective
• Try it with white construction paper instead of paint - better shape definition and control
• I also thought about doing it like Rorschach blots - making colorful paint blobs on paper, folding it in half, and then seeing what the kids thought it looked like.

But still, we had fun. Lots of fun.



How's your reading coming? We checked out Shark vs. Train, What Are You So Grumpy About?, and What's Up With This Room? on Saturday. Q is, of course, in love with Shark vs. Train. Genius idea for a book.

I may have to rethink our plan for this week, as it will be hard to get them as excited about Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site as they are about the shiny new library books.