I knew my kids would love playing with liquid watercolours the first time I saw them on Pinterest.
This was the first time we used the watercolours so we didn’t have any agenda other than experimenting and having fun. Children learn so much in play. I provided jars of diluted watercolours, watercolour paper and plastic pipettes. Oh – and lots of newspaper and kitchen paper. You’ll see why in the photos!
I don’t know whether liquid watercolours aren’t used in the UK as much as in the USA – I hadn’t come across them before, and had to order them from Amazon US. We had so much fun with a very small quantity, though, so the shipping cost was worth it. C has even been recycling some of her watercolour art by photocopying it and using it in her art journal. This is definitely an activity we’ll be repeating over the summer!
The results look gorgeous! I think liquid watercolour is just starting to enter the market here while it has always been available in the US. A substitute might be drawing inks.
Thanks, Hwee! We were very pleased with how pretty the effects were, for our first time playing. Good idea about the drawing inks, you could mix colours too I guess.
Oooh! I can use this for my library programs!!! Great idea!
Wow your library programs sound fun – my kids wanna come! 🙂
I’ve never seen watercolors like that! Huh. I’ll have to search some out for the kids when we work on art next year. I bet coffee filters would make an interesting “paper” for these! Beautiful!
Thank you, Jessy! Oh yes I think filter papers would work great {filing idea away for more summer fun} 🙂
Lucinda,
Such satisfying results. I love the back to front shirts! Are you going to use the paintings for any other project? I could just imagine then being cut up to decorate little notebooks or something similar.
Hello Sue, I love recycling James’ old shirts for art cover-ups! C(9) has been using her paintings in her art journal – they look gorgeous. Brilliant idea about notebook covering – I’ll mention that to C, she’s quite crafty in that way – it’s definitely not my area of expertise!
Nominating you for the Super Sweet Blogger Award…at least when I finish the post. LOL Just letting you know; I know some bloggers don’t like to participate in these awards.
Thank you so much, Jessy! I’m honoured 🙂