What to do:
- using autumn colors,
(ie. yellow, red, orange, brown),
children spaghetti paint
How to do
it:
- pre-cook spaghetti
(the thicker the kind of spaghetti the better)
until just limp - you don't want it too soggy or it won't work! (adding
a tablespoon of cooking oil to the boiling water helps keep spaghetti from
lumping together while cooking)
- quickly remove from hot water and rinse
in cold water
- when spaghetti is
cool enough to work with, let children grab handfuls of it and dip it into
ice cream buckets of pre-mixed tempera paint
- children then place
paint-saturated spaghetti onto sheets of finger-painting paper
(paper that is glossy on one side)
and proceed to 'paint' with it by dragging it around, swirling it, trailing
it, etc.
- vary colors - remove spaghetti from paper
when desired image has been achieved
- label and dry flat
