Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Andy's Class #2 of 4, Petite Picasso at the Magic House


"Look at my hands Mommy!"  The shaving cream aftermath.
Andy enjoyed another fun morning of art class at the Magic House.  This week he worked with watercolors, shaving cream, water beads, poster paint and glue.  His absolute favorite was the shaving cream.  He got to squirt it out of the can all
over the table, then add hot chocolate to it to make it brown and spray it with a water bottle.  Then he drove rollers and cars through it to make designs.  He chose this activity first and could hardly break himself away to do the other projects.  He was back at this station at the end.  What fun!

Shaving cream station

Squirting the shaving cream out of the can all by himself.
Now Andy is adding the hot chocolate for color and texture.  It smelled really good when mixed with the shaving cream.
Spreading it around.  This is just the beginning.  His pile got bigger and bigger.

Water Beads

The two tubs are filled with water beads and various scoopers and containers to play with them.  The water beads are actually designed to use for watering plants.  When you fill them with water they expand and when left out for a few days, the beads dehydrate and go back to their original size. 

Andy playing with water beads. 

Sun Catcher 

Andy made a  sun catcher from a plastic ice cream lid.   He dumped a little tub of glue on it and added all kinds of decorations.  Next week it will have a hole punched on one end with string through it to hang it in the window.

Those colorful pieces are colored straws cut into small sections.

 Watercolor Painting

The paper already had a swirly design on it made with rubber cement.  He painted over it with watercolors and we'll see what it looks like next week with the rubber cement peeled off.  Mary did a little painting while we were sitting with Andy.  She liked it. 

Splatter Paint Box 

We slid a piece of paper into the bottom of the box with rubber bands stretched across it.  Then he painted over the rubber bands and the paint splattered onto the paper.  

This paint project gets messy.  Can you see the paint on his forehead?
After art class, we stayed for about 30 minutes to play.  The kids had a good time, it was just right.
Mary at the light table with colored shapes.
Andy and the giant light bright.
Mary had to check it out too.
She is reaching for one of them.