a little blue, and little yellow collage

Those bead strands? Treasure! They got tucked into pockets, and placed on upper lips, and balanced on heads. The pompoms? More pocket stuffing. Same with the beads. Pockets! Pockets! Pockets! We even saw children making their own pockets when they did not have any on their clothes. 

Some of the bits actually made it to paper. Painted beforehand, and painted after. Let them play! 
 

flower investigation: lemon verbena

Lemon verbena is a delightful plant. The leaves are very firm and substantial in texture, while the flowers are very delicate and white. The children felt the flowers were lilac, white, and purple and so we put out those colors for them to use. The children loved that the plant smelled like lemons but had no yellow on it at all. How could that be? Ah, the minds and wonder of children. Along with the oil pastels, we chose skinny black paper to add variety to their floral art, and help the lighter colors pop! 

oh my stars!

 

punched paper collage