100 Days- Silhouette Painting

The exciting news about today is... it is the 100th day of school! For the session of 2014-2015 we have hit the incredible one-zero-zero. The day consisted of many games with the 100 theme: Stacking 100 cups, doing 20 of 5 different exercises (5x20= 100), making a snack with 100 pieces of various ingredients, etc.

All of the above was planned and executed by me eldest sister. She also found today's art project but I had the pleasure of planning and teaching it.

To make the project extra special we bought canvases. Most of the kids have never gotten to use a canvas before so this was a big deal. :)

What you will need:

-canvases (we used 8x10)
-papertowels
-tempera paint (or acrylics - you can buy cheap .99 craft bottles)
-stencils

Time: 1 hour

• Each child gets to pick ONE color - lay down a solid coat of that one color using papertowel
• I then plopped white paint straight on the canvas in the center - give each child a new papertowel - have them blot/dab the white to spread it out almostttttt to the edge
• Plop more white in the center - dab it so you have a bright center, medium pale color, then the edges are dark
• New paper towel! I poured a little black on their paper towel and we dabbed the edges just to give it an antique border and add some contrast
• Drying time! During this time of maybe 10-15 minutes (tempera dries fast) the kids went with my eldest sister and did some exercises while Keirstyn and I painted the edges black and blow dried the paint where it had pooled
• When they came back they each got to pick our the stencil they wanted and we used black paint (the red and green stencils are mine and Keirstyn's paintings) - I would hold down the stencil and they would dab on the paint.
• Enjoy and hang it on your wall!