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Crayon Resist Garden Painting
Try making a crayon resist water color painting!
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You will start by coloring a picture with crayons
and then painting over the whole picture with
water color paints or food coloring. The key to
making a crayon resist painting is to use crayons only on the parts of the paper where you
do not want the paint to show. The paint will
“resist” sticking to the crayon. For any parts of
your painting where you want your paint to
show, leave those spaces as plain paper without any crayon. The sky is a great place not to
use crayon because you can paint it blue for a
daytime sky, black for a nighttime sky, or reds
and yellows for a beautiful sunset.
• White paper
• Crayons
• Watercolor paints or food coloring
• Water
• Paint brush
– a larger brush will fill in the spaces faster
• Optional: Construction paper, tape or glue
TALLY HO! LET’S HAVE FUN!
1. Use crayons to draw a garden on a piece of
white paper. You can draw a flower garden, a
vegetable garden, a butterfly garden, an
orchard with fruit trees, or any other type of
garden you would like to draw. Be sure to
press hard with the crayons.
2. After you are done coloring with the crayons,
spoons of water. Dip your brush into the food
coloring/water mixture and paint it on your
paper the same as if you were using water
color paints. *The water in this mixture will
make the paper wrinkle slightly more than the
watercolor paints.
3. Once your painting is dry, talk about what
use the water color paints to paint over your
crayon drawing. Any spaces on the paper not
filled in with crayon will show the watercolor
paint.
kinds of plants or trees are in your garden
picture. Can you see any parts of the plant,
including the stem, petals, leaves, seeds or
roots?
OR, Instead of using watercolor paints, you
can mix 5 drops of food coloring with 3 table-
4. Optional: Tape or glue your painting to a piece
of construction paper to make a frame.
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