You can make pictures out ol things that are smooth, slippery, knobby, prickly, hard, soft, tickly, scratchy, buinpv. or ripply.
Or yon can make a picture out of many different pieces of the same kind of thing, like bits of yarn or pieces of cloth.
These pictures that are Inn to touch and fun to see are called “collages.”
FUNNY SPLASH DESIGNS
Materials
2 pieces of white paper
tempera or poster paint
a rolling pin
Splash some paint of different colors on one sheet of paper. Put another piece of paper on top of it. Roll the paper with a rolling pin. Lift up the top piece of paper to see what kind of picture you have!
Crafts to paint
How To Make a Dough Picture
Now you can start building your picture on vour pieces of cardboard. Shape each part of the picture with your fingers before Mm slick it to the cardboard.
You can use brown dough for a tree trunk. Use green for leaves. Add extra dough where you want the bumps in your picture to stand up more. If you wish, you can put seeds, yarn, or other odds and ends into the dough as part of the picture. Let the dough dry.
How To Make The Dough Paint
Mix salt and Hour with a few spoonfuls of water. Keep adding water, a spoonful at a time, until the mixture is as soft as the dough your mother uses for eookies.
When the dough is just right, put some in each of your containers. Then add a spoonful of tempera to each container, and mix it in with the dough.
Craft paintings
PICTURES MADE OF BUMPY DOUGH
Materials
1 cup of flour
1 cup of salt water
tempera paints
several containers, one for each color of dough
a mixing bowl
a spoon
cardboard or heavy paper
If you use an ice-cream stick instead of a screen, rub your toothbrush against the ice-cream stick to make the paint spatter.
After you have covered the paper with spatters, pick up the leaf.
You can use the same leaf again and again on other sheets of paper. Or you can use any shapes you want like cutouts, flowers, and coins.
How to paint a picture
MAKING SPATTER PICTURES
Place a leaf on the paper. Dip your toothbrush in the saucer of paint.
Hold your screen over the paper and brush it. Paint will spatter on the paper except where the leaf is covering it. A screen with big holes will make big spatter spots. Small holes will make small spatter spots.
Custom paint pictures
SPATTER A PICTURE
Materials
• an old toothbrush • a saucer • a tree leaf • a sheet of paper • poster paints or ink • a piece of screen or a flat stick
GETTING READY
Put old newspapers over the table where you plan to work, so that the paint won’t spatter on the table. Put on an apron or a smock.
Pour some poster paint or ink into a saucer. If you use poster paint, add water to it to make it thinner.
Paint can picture
TRY OTHER COLORS
Scratch out the main outline of your picture first. Then make parts of the picture stand out with little scratches put close together. Try wavy lines, wiggly lines, zigzag lines, wide lines, and tiny lines.
Trv other colors over dif-ferent kinds of colored paper.
Using an Old Toothbrush
Toothbrush bristles are stiffer than paintbrush bristles. So the pictures you paint with a toothbrush will show the brush strokes clearlv.
