Watercolors!

We have a once a month series at my library for school age children, where they work on different projects based on a theme. Our Spring series focused on STEAM themes. So far we have done volcanoes, squishy circuits, Rube-Goldberg machines and recently we made watercolor paintings. Each kid got one sheet on watercolor paper and a black crayon. They then used a random assortment of circular objects to trace overlapping circles on their paper. Next, I let them choose several watercolor pencils and they filled in the "painting". They then used clean brushes and water to "paint" the pencil markings they made. It's actually very cool to see the sharp lines the pencils make turn into soft watercolors.