Color Blind

See what happens when you combine crayons with a blindfold

ADDED April 15, 2009

(In case you can't tell -- and we wouldn't exactly blame you if you can't, the pictures here on today's post are a horse and a monster.)

As you might remember, we enjoy taste tests in our house.  It's easy!  All you need is a blindfold and some different foods.

Well, one day after finishing a breakfast taste test (strawberry jelly vs. grape jelly, regular cream cheese vs. strawberry cream cheese), the kids wanted to do another activity using the blindfold.  So we decided to do some coloring.

This one's pretty easy to explain:  put a blindfold on your kid and decide on something to draw.  Your child will have fun with the challenge (it is very challenging, as you might imagine) and you guys will get some pretty interesting results!

Try more simple subjects for this kind of drawing.  A face is funny to try -- also a house, a sun, a monster, a snake, and so forth.  More complicated subjects (a flock of zebras nibbling grass while lions prowl in the nearby grass) might not work so well. 

Have fun and tell your kids this is how Michelangelo got  his start.  (Not really.  But maybe Jackson Pollack?)

(Your family may already have some crayons handy, but check out some of our favorites to use here and here.  Our favorite markers to use are here.)

ages 3-12, art supplies needed, good at home, rainy day fun,

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