Wax Resist Painting and Raspberries

Another Thursday means Ria again . . . everyone wanted a turn holding her, of course! Katie was first.

Ryan got to hold her as well.

Our art activity for the day was wax resist painting. The children drew pictures first with white crayons on white paper. Katie, however, experimented with using colored crayons. They then painted over the drawings with watercolor paints, so that we could see the white of the crayons stand out.


And here are the final paintings . . .

Josephine's:

Orianna's:



Eden's:

Ryan's:

Katie's:

Later in the afternoon, the kids discovered some perfectly ripe raspberries on the bushes and decided to make something out of them.

Here is Eden enjoying the process. What can I say that her beautiful raspberry stained face doesn't say for itself?

Before Eden left for the day, she dictated a list of instructions to me so that Josephine could make her own raspberry drink. Here they are:

1. Get the raspberries.
2. Mush the raspberries
3. Put them in the blender. Count to 64.
4. Add water.
5. Strain it.
6. Reuse it.
7. Put sugar in a big bowl.
8. Then put the juice in it.
9. Then stir it.
10. And then start all over again.