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Homemade Scratch Art

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FunLab campers love scratch art – so my question was can we make it instead of buying the sheets? After a little bit of research online I found lots of sites which used HOMEMADE SCRATCH ART which inspired me to try it out at the FunLab Bilingual Summer Camp.
This is an excellent project for TEACHERS – low cost with lots of creative possibilites!


You will need:

Water color paper
Oil pastels
Q-tips
Black acrylic paint

Let’s get started to do your handmade scratch art:
Step 1: Cut a piece of watercolor paper in 4 equal parts. Color a rainbow with oil pastels.
colorrainbow

Step 2: Use a q-tip to smooth over the pastels covering completely the white paper.
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Step 3: Paint with black acrylic paint.
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Step 4: START SCRATCHING away the black and discover the colors underneath! You can even use the small end of a paint brush to scratch away the paint. Here it is your handmade scratch art
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We were talking about leaves and the kids created reproductions of the different leaves we collected during out nature walk!

have fun
Alison Smith

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