Spooky Watercolors & Shape Castles

This is a simple two step project inspired by some watercolor art that looked like a spooky night sky....so we added spooky castles.

You will need:
Water colors
Paper (we used watercolor paper)
black, yellow and purple construction paper
scissors
glue

Begin by painting with watercolors on paper. Set the stage by reading a story or talking about the dark night sky. Great books to set the mood are "I Spy Spooky Night" by Jean Marzollo & Walter Wick, "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda Williams, or "In the Haunted House" by Eve Bunting.

Here are the two pieces we started with.

We then cut some black squares and rectangles from black and yellow paper and isosceles triangles from purple paper.
Have your artist arrange them to create a castle and glue the pieces to the page.

Happy Halloween!