{Painting with Kids} Scratch Art Effect

Remember being in art class in school, and making scratch art with crayons? 

You colored with all your crayons in your box, covered the entire page with black, then used a stylus tool to "scratch" the black to make a design.

This painting project is very similar.

-First, using a wood board (I found mine at the Dollar Store) have your  child paint the entire area with a variety of colors. 

-When it's dry, use stickers or vinyl to cover some of the colorful painted area. I used an "All You Need is Love" cutout I made from my Silhouette machine. If you don't have a machine, you could use Con-Tact paper as a sticker. Just find a design or words you like, trace them onto the Con-Tact paper and cut it out.  

Next, have your child paint over the entire board, including the stickers, with black.

Think of the sticker as a reverse stencil. When the black is dry, carefully pull off the stickers.

The areas that the stickers covered now pop out against the black.

This is a simple project with a big result, that your youngster will be proud of creating, and you'll be proud to hang in your home. 

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