Painting is fun and there's so many ways to do it without paint brushes! Here's a demonstration of one of those ways....Chick Peas! Using a tray (or some other vessel with edges and a flat bottom), I placed paper down and put liquid watercolours (sub in any watered down paint so that the chick peas can easily roll through it) on the paper. I chose colours that would mix well together purposely. I also chose to use our coloured Chick Peas and used the colours of chick peas tha

The spring weather has put that artistic and creative pep back in my step, and I hope it has for you too! Today we're working with cornmeal again, but this time incorporating it into art! You can start either by making a drawing yourself and letting them find out what it is, or giving them a glue stick or either a bottle of liquid glue or liquid glue with a paintbrush to make a picture with. Once they're done gluing you can give them their cornmeal with spoons, or they can us

Interested in other ways to use Creation Station materials? Wondering how Art fits in? Here are a couple of examples of art that can be done at various ages using the following materials: · Coloured Pasta · Coloured Rice · Coloured Chick Peas · Coloured Split Peas The first photo is a picture made by our Chief Experience Officer. As an adult she had the patience to carefully place the various materials just how she wanted them, and the result was a beautiful outdoor scene dep