Watercolors & Stencils

This is an outdoor art project our agency has offered many times at local children's events and the kids always enjoy immensely. We set up this activity outside with a bin of water to rinse the stencils and an area for spraying which will allow for easy clean up for the over spray.

An additional bonus to this activity is the fine motor strength developed from squeezing the spray bottle. If you don't have plastic stencils, you can use any object that creates a nice silhouette or trace a simple shaped object onto a large plastic lid, cutting out the shape. If you don't have liquid watercolors, you can create them with watercolor paint in tubes. Squeeze some watercolors into a spray bottle, add water and shake to create your own liquid watercolors.

You will need:

Liquid water colors or watercolor tubes

Paper

Spray bottles (re-use some spray bottles or buy some at the Dollar Store)

Stencils

Crayons

Place the stencil over the paper, spray and done!

Variations: Embellish this art project using crayons before spraying as our artist did with this tiger.



And the artist added the yellow center of this flower with yellow crayon.



Be sure to offer multiple colors and multiple shapes to provide children plenty of creative input into this process oriented art project.