Friday, April 11, 2014

Paint Chip Poetry

Poetry can be colourful
We have been working on a poetry unit writing poems and publishing them online, in books and in our visual journals.  I found the idea for the colour poetry on "Fabulous in Fourth Grade".  The paint chips can be found at hardware stores and they can come in different sizes and many colours.

Materials:
  • watercolour paint
  • paintbrush
  • masking or painters tape
  • paint chips
  • gluesticks
  • sharpie markers
  • visual journal
After brainstorming and using graphic organizers students write about the colours on their paint chips using the five senses.


Open you visual journal to a double blank page.  Apply masking tape in different directions to both pages.  

Helpful Hint:
* Make sure to smooth the tape down to the page so that the paint doesn't get under the tape
*tear the tape a little longer than the page for easy removal
*use a thinner tape to allow the colours to be the focus


Use the paintbrush and apply bright colours of watercolour paint in small areas until there is no white spaces left on the paper.  

Helpful Hint:
*It's ok to paint over the tape.  It will ensure that nothing is left behind unpainted
*If you use too much paint or the tape isn't smoothed down the colour will show up underneath the tape


Peel off the tape slowly and carefully.


Once the page has dried fully use a glue stick and glue the paint chips onto the two pages.


Once finished they look pretty incredible.  Through the entire process our class had to stop many times, due to requests to have a museum where they could walk around to see what their peers have done in their visual journals.