Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Inkblots

Yesterday we made inkblots to start out this week’s Carriage House art camp. The kids loved making them and then we then looked at Margaret’s Peot’s book “Inkblot” together and the kids got ideas for transforming their blots into creatures. I think the results are terrific and they made so many inkblots that we have enough set aside in the drying rack to use in the coming days when there is a bit of extra time.

Today I suggested that they work on one of their extra inkblots as a sort of warm-up project of the day, but they were so jazzed about finding creatures and people in the blots, that they made a bunch more. Here are some of them: