WINGS at Home Activity Details

Learning Objectives: 

• Investigation/discovery
• Color theory
• Painting/Design
• Sensory

Materials:

• Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries
• Red onion skin or yellow
• Coffee grounds
• Tea (loose or bagged)
• Cinnamon
• Turmeric
• Any spices in your pantry
• Any plants from outdoors
• Small saucepan
• Spoons/mortar & pestle
• Small sieve

Tools:

• Small bowls
• Soft watercolor brushes 
• Watercolor paper or drawing paper
• Paper towels
• Water cups

Steps:

1. Locate a variety of items that you can mash to extract juice
2. Some items such as berries can be mashed through a sieve 
3. Grasses, flowers and onion skins can be boiled in a small amount of water -OR- ground up with water in a mortar/pestle
4. Spices can be mixed with warm water as well and drained through a paper towel to leave behind the spice
5. Coffees and teas can be made to a variety of strengths
6. Once your “paints” are created and you have a variety of colors or values, create a painting of a flower, or your favorite pet using what you have.  Colors don’t need to be exact, and to layer or build up darker values of a color, let each layer dry in between (you can use a hairdryer!)