Jul. 28, 2008

Unplugged Project ~ Flat (flower prints)

This week Unplug Your Kids' weekly unplugged project is Flat. Well, a lot of things are flat or can be flattened so we decided to do painted flower prints that we pressed 'flat' on our 'flat' paper. *grin*


We raided Omi's garden for a fun assortment of roses, daisies, geraniums, chive blooms, yarrow, ladies mantle leaves, primrose leaves, allium seed heads and then collected our painting supplies. We have an old burl coffee table in the backyard that works perfectly for crafting on that we covered with newspaper and used some of our rock creatures to hold our painting paper 'flat' :)


L started with a pretty rose and brushed on the paint. You don't want to put the paint on to thick if you can help it. The thinner the paint the clearer the print of your flower will be, thick paint just prints a big blob :)


And that's it, just paint and press 'flat'.


Primrose leaves create a really neat looking texture because all of the veins show up really well....


and the allium seed heads make a fireworks effect that is super neat :)


Get crazy with your colors to, mix and match them in a tye dye effect for even more fun. When the centers of the daisies are pressed 'flat' they make a really cool stipple effect. So when you've worn out your daisy and the petals just can't take another coat of paint, pluck them off and keep on printing the centers :)


You can even use this project to teach a little color blending lesson *grin* by watching how your rinse water changes color each time you add a new paint to it :)



Here are some of our 'flattened' flower prints :) Hope you have fun making some of your own.