In the afternoon I took the boys outside (it seems to be the best place to be since the weather is so nice) and got some supplies ready for Color Wonder Day. I bought Color Wonder Finger Paints which Brock was initially really excited about but lost that lovin' feeling quickly when he saw that he had to dip his fingers in the goo in order for it to turn colors on the paper. Blake went to town creating a great picture and then he and I made a rainbow together. Our only disappointment was that we wanted to mix the colors to make new ones but it didn't work. It only covered up the color underneath. So much for the lesson on creating new colors.
Blake and his rainbow.
Bradley and Bryson started working with some sidewalk chalk which is Ultra Cool 3D chalk. You trace the stencils (this was the Toy Story themed package), then color it in, add details to your picture, then put on the 3D glasses and let your jaw drop!
Brock settled in with some purple chalk for about 30 seconds and then took off on his scooter. He's more of the hunter-gatherer type!
The 3 Amigos creating different pictures. It was really cool to see how each one turned out with the 3D glasses on.
How about a 3D game of Tic-Tac-Toe?
We discovered that the warmer colors would raise off the ground much higher than the cooler colors--which prompted a brief discussion of what is a warm/cool color. This geometric drawing that Bradley did was amazing when he was finished. The pink and yellow of course popped off the sidewalk. The green was a little higher than the blue. Too bad blogger doesn't have 3D Vision!
The last thing we did was this giant coloring puzzle. If I'm going to be honest, it was a spur of the moment thing to respond to the kids when they said "What are going to do next?" So I drew a giant square-ish shape on the ground and then drew in puzzle pieces in the square and told them to color the puzzle pieces but you couldn't have same colors touching each other. So each boy took a color and started to organize the coloring. They were pretty impressed with their artwork when they were done. Again, the 3D thing made it sooo cool. Here is Blake (he finished the last green puzzle piece to finish the whole thing) with the 3D glasses on checking out the masterpiece!
No, this picture isn't enhanced with some freaky color thing. These are Blake's legs and feet covered in blue, green, orange and yellow chalk dust. Pretty much everyone was covered in chalk dust literally from head to toe. But a quick bath fixed that and I learned that Baby Wipes will clean off Crayola 3D chalk from your clothing. Well, at least it got bright blue chalk off my pants after Brock walked by and put his cute bright blue fingerprints all over one knee. 3D Chalk and Baby Wipes--gotta love them both!
3 comments:
I didn't know they have so many fun options in the chalk and Color Wonder worlds! So fun!
That's pretty sweet, you know that colored puzzle problem you gave them was one of my assignments in CS in college. . . these kids are way ahead of me :)
Brett beat me to the punch with the CS map-coloring problem, but that was the first thing that popped into my head. :)
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