The art of fruit
Posted on Jun 28th 2008 7:30AM by Jacki DonaldsonFiled Under: Healthy Kids, Nutrition & Supplements
My kids love fruit. Yours might too. But it never can hurt to have a little more fruit-filled inspiration in our lives. That's what one teacher thought just before setting her kindergarten class loose on this fruity art project. Still Life With Kool-Aid is what she calls it. And here's what Jessica Burkett did.- She covered a work area with newspaper.
- She heaped fruit into a bowl, even let some overflow onto the table. The more fruit there is to paint, the better, she says.
- She had kids use markers to draw an outline on watercolor paper of the still life. Kids were instructed not to color anything in with the markers, though.
- In separate cups, she used separate paintbrushes and mixed each of five packets of unsweetened Kool-Aid with two tablespoons of water. She arranged the cups in a row and placed the corresponding Kool-Aid packets in front of the cups to identify each flavor.
- She had the kids paint each fruit they'd drawn with the appropriate Kool-Aid "paint." Their creations dried for about 20 minutes.
- Once dry, kids could scratch a painted fruit lightly with a fingernail and sniff.
