Emerge

A coloring activity that will make the fun come out. And come forth. And just generally emanate.

ADDED July 10, 2009

Length: About 20 minutes

Parental Involvement:  Explain the idea.

Kids Should Be Able to:  Follow directions.  Create art!

 

Here is a fun art activity that comes with a free, bonus vocabulary word.  That word is "emerge."  Do your kids know it?

("Emerge" means 'come out of' or 'come into view.' We like when a smile emerges from a frown, for instance.)

For this activity, you will need the following:

(1)  a nice box of crayons
(2)  some blank paper, and,
(3)  a paper clip or two.

Now, the activity we're describing here is nothing groundbreaking, we hate to inform you.  I did it myself when I was a kid.  But we're hoping that reading this post is helpful to you one way or another.  We hope you can use it to keep your little ones busy.

Take a relatively light colored crayon and rub its tip on a blank piece of paper, creating a big blob of color.  It will look like this.

Next, take the black crayon and color on top of the color.  The idea is to blot out the color with the black.  It's easily done, and it will look like this.

Finally -- and here's the real fun and magic -- have your kids take a paper clip and bend it so one end is protruding.  With that protruding tip, they can scratch some letters or drawings into the black blob of crayon.  The results will be quite exciting, because art will . . . emerge! Voilá!

If your family is in the mood to try some new crayons, here is a passel of them that we recommend.  And here are some paper clips. 

Please leave a comment below to let us know how the emerging goes in your house!

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