Our 1st Art Jar activity was sticker resist painting. This activity has been on my to do list for a very long time. It was fun, but I was a little disappointed (but not surprised) with the results.
To do this activity, O decorated a piece of white cardstock with stickers. She then painted the cardstock. After the paint was dry, we peeled the stickers off the paper. Unfortunately, the stickers tore the paper, so the effect was not what I had hoped. Luckily, I thought this might happen, and I warned O that her painting might tear. I was so glad that I forewarned her because I'm sure she would have been very upset if I had not. O had a lot of fun painting, and we are looking forward to our next Art Jar activity!
Ah man.. thats no fun that it ripped. but Im sure it was fun doing the project even t hough it didn't turn out the way you had hoped~
ReplyDeleteMaybe try again with fingerpaint paper. It is kinda waxy on the surface, so the stickers might come off better.
ReplyDeleteThat's a neat idea. I have a bunch of sticker dots that are "removable". I'll bet those would be great for this activity. They stick down good, but you can easily peel them off!
ReplyDeleteGlossy paper might help or different kinds of stickers. I wouldn't give up on this activity. Great job warning her, I can imagine how that might have turned out. Poor thing!
ReplyDeleteOr maybe you can "make" your own stickers with painters tape. I know there is also some seamstress tape that comes off very easily as well (it looks like masking tape). You can do strips or squares or triangles with that instead of stickers.
ReplyDeleteAlso, can you list all your activitys (with links if possible) in your art jar? If you don't want to do it now, maybe after you've posted about all your art jar activities? I'd love to make Hannah an art jar.
I'll try to post a list tomorrow night after the kiddos are asleep. Right now they are all from library books, so I don't have links, but I'll put a link to the books. Also, I made an Art Jar category that I'm labeling all of the art jar activities with.
ReplyDeleteWe use painters tape and masking tape, it comes right once the paint is completely dry. If it is still wet it will tear. We made spring trees recently, and they turned out great!
ReplyDeleteps I have been following you for some time, I love all of your ideas!
This has been on my to-do list too! :) We're going to use canvases from the dollar store as they don't tear :D and we're going to use clear tape/contact paper instead of stickers to make designs. Maybe you can try that out with O! I look forward to seeing more art jar activities!
ReplyDeleteBummer about the torn paper! We plan on doing something similar with Easter eggs this year.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see what you two will create next! :)
another idea is to use some little painter canvases. Stickers and tape peel off of those so much easier.
ReplyDeleteI'm always disappointed with the sticker books that the girls sometimes receive as presents, because the stickers that accompany those always seem to be crappy and unsticky, and they fall off all the time. This would perhaps be a better use for them.
ReplyDeleteAnd also the stickers that the girls receive from the cashier every time we go to the grocery store--this could convince the girls to stop decorating the inside of the car with them on the way home!
I am going to try crayon resist this week on heavy paper eggs.
ReplyDeleteI've used the low stick masking tape that architects use for this, painters tape as well
ReplyDeleteso glad she was a good sport about it, my child would have had a meltdown :)
my son LOVEs sticking stickers on paper and then coloring over the stickers with marker b/c the marker doesn't "stick" to the sticker, but does to the paper around the sticker...