Creating textures

Here Avery and Rowan show their exploration in ways of creating textures. The kids made six spaces on their papers. On the first they lay down yellow, blue, and red, then salted with three different salts to see how each reacted in each color. Another space was used to lay down color, then when dry, lift off color over a stencil with a sponge. In a third space they used masking tape to tape off a picture, then painted around it. In a fourth space, they wet the middle, then spattered the whole thing. Then they spritzed the bottom part with water. This let them see three separate textures they can create just with spattering. In the fifth space they lay down color, then put crumpled saran wrap over it while wet, creating this very wrinkled, icy look. In the last - and I think they had the most fun with this - they put a drop of very wet color on the paper and blew it with a straw, repeating over and over again.