Mud Painting

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Materials

Easels

Drop cloths or newspaper

Easel paper

Dirt

Water

Small buckets

Paintbrushes, all sizes

Instructions

1. Make a "sticker box" for the Art Station. Cover a small box with constructionpaper and decorate it using markers.2. Add leftover stickers to the "sticker box" throughout the year. For example,when the children do a project with stickers and there are one or two stickersleft on a page, put them in the box. Or, if you clean out your desk and find afew, add them to the box, too.3. Explain to the children that they are free to use these stickers as they desirefor art projects. They seem to enjoy sticking them into "blank books" (foldedand stapled paper).4. Make sure they know that the stickers are for sticking on paper only, not ontables or chairs. Also, ask them to throw away empty sticker pages.More to doLanguage: Ask the children to tell you a story about the picture or book theyhave made.

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