Painted paper project

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The K-2 "Copy Cats!" class did a fun and easy project that started with painting paper. I discovered this idea from Patty Palmer at http://www.deepspacesparkle.com/2013/02/09/painted-paper-video/. I LOVE HER WEBSITE!!! Use it all the time for inspiration, video "how-to's", and downloads. We used tempera paint on 12x18" white card stock. Each child painted one paper with blues, one with reds and one with yellows. We all did a few more, green and purple. The next session we cut out the paper in the shape of a bird, its beak, a tree, mountains, basically whatever the student wanted to go with his/her bird.

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