Invitation to Create: Watercolor Painting Wood Spools
Invitation to Create: Watercolor Painting Wood Spools
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Want to slow down? Looking for a simple, quiet, and relaxing activity to do with the children? We've just had the most magical afternoon painting wood spools with watercolor paints and can't wait to share this fantastic invitation to create with you. To see all the fun, please continue reading below.
What You'll Need
- Wood spools
- Watercolor paints
- Paintbrush
- Cup of water (these are so handy and easy to store)
- This CD would be lovely to listen to while painting
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What to Do
Begin by placing your supplies on a table in an inviting way. We placed a handful or two of wood spools in a container, the watercolor paints and brush, and a cup of water by a sunny window and invited our children to paint the spools.
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Invite your child to paint the wood spools.
Doesn't this just look so peaceful and inviting? We really enjoyed this invitation to create. We made a full rainbow of spools.
They dried quickly and then we enjoyed stacking and sorting them.
You may also enjoy this watercolor flower art from a fellow blogger.
In fact, our invitation to create, which started out simply painting wood spools, soon turned into painting everything wood we could find ...
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