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Thursday, January 14, 2010

stART ~ It Looked Like Spilt Milk

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Welcome to stART! I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too! The linky will be open all week.

Spilt Milk

This week we read It Looked Like Spilt Milk, by Charles G. Shaw. This is a fun book that shows a different white picture blob on each blue page. We have to guess what it really is all the way till the end.

When I read this book with my first graders I had them draw a shape and then fill it in with cotton balls. Since Emily is not at the stage where she could draw a shape and have it closly resemble something I thought it would be more fun to do blob paintings.

Emily’s Blob Paintings

IMG_1044 Emily used a dropper to drop white paint onto a blue piece of construction paper. I watered the paint down so that is would work with the dropper. IMG_1047 When she felt like it was the right amount of paint she folded the paper over and smoothed it out.IMG_1048 When she opened it…

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…she said “It looks like a butterfly.”

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And it really did!!!


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17 comments:

  1. An Almost Unschooling MomJanuary 14, 2010

    There's no denying that's a butterfly. Very nice project!

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  2. RebeccaJanuary 14, 2010

    It does look like a butterfly! Or an apple.

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  3. DebbieJanuary 14, 2010

    We loved this book! I thought it looked like an apple, but what a great idea!

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  4. CindyJanuary 14, 2010

    We love this book. I remember reading it to my 17 yr old when she was little and now her 3 yr old brother loves it just as much!

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  5. Mama to 5January 14, 2010

    Very cute! I love the craft! :)

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  6. AprilJanuary 14, 2010

    She is right, it does look like a butterfly!

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  7. Z-KidsJanuary 14, 2010

    Wonderful craft!
    -AZ

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  8. Brimful CuriositiesJanuary 14, 2010

    Wow, it does look like a butterfly. How fun! We love to do "blob" art.

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  9. TrudieJanuary 14, 2010

    Love this idea, will give it a try!

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  10. Natalie PlanetSmartyJanuary 14, 2010

    Very pretty, and the book is great too.

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  11. Mama to 5January 14, 2010

    is your McKlinky gone? I do not see the other blogs? :)

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  12. JennyJanuary 14, 2010

    We've done this project before and it's so fun to see what the blobs make!

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  13. Our Little FamilyJanuary 14, 2010

    Awww, I totally remember doing this with MY first graders, too! It was always a beloved story. I'll have to dig up my copy and try this with Maddie. Awesome!

    So happy to be linking up this week!

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  14. AnonymousJanuary 15, 2010

    aww so cute! It totally looks like a butterfly!

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  15. Montessori MomentsJanuary 15, 2010

    I really like your blog! I'm so glad I found it! We loves crafts and God too!
    Hope you'll come on by for a visit, we would love to have you!

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  16. SusanaJanuary 21, 2010

    Joe and I love this book!

    Your activity with it is a fun one and I always love seeing your pictures too.

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  17. Mama to 5January 21, 2010

    Hi mama - are you posting a McKlinky for stART this week? Thanks, Nicole

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