Paint in a Bag turns Turkey

 So we tried Paint in a Bag with baby oil and Tempera Paint yesterday.  It was fun to watch our two color choices swirl around until they finally ended up mixing together and creating a new color.  It was a fun lesson on color mixing.  We just used the sandwich bag size and that was big enough for how much interest she had in the whole thing.  Dot kept asking what we were going to make, when the real project will start...etc.  Good for a sensory experiment, but she wanted to REALLY make something!

She really liked to watch the colors ooze their way down the bag.

 So, hmmm, what to do with all this paint in baggies.  Well, we dumped it all out in cups and decided to paint some coffee filters.  At this time, I really had NO idea where we were going to go with this.  The girl just loves to paint.  Anything.

 

So we let our coffee filters dry overnight and decided this morning to make our coffee filters into feathers for a turkey!  Perfect...now this is Dot's kind of activity. We cut out a body for our turkey.

 

Cut out circles for eyes and she made her own beak and gobbler.  Added a little color....pink...

  

...and orange.

 

We used our funny scissors to cut out different edged feathers from the filters and glued them to the back of our turkey with glue sticks.

 The sun was shining so bright at this moment that you really can't see the colors properly.  I didn't bother checking the photo once I took it, but you get the idea.  But there you have it!  Paint in a Bag turns into a Turkey!