Do your kids or students play with K’NEX?  Our daughter thought of this idea while building K’NEX snowflakes.  We simply sprayed over the toy snowflakes and then removed them, creating a negative image of the flakes in the process!

Materials

Sprayed Snowflakes with make-it-your-own.com (Creative activities for kids)

  • K’NEX
  • Liquid watercolour paints
  • Funnel
  • Fine mist spray bottle
  • Watercolour paper

We always find these items helpful too:

Make-it-your-own.com (Crafts & activities for kids)

  • Smock
  • Craft tray

Directions

  • Build your snowflakes- this is a great time to explore patterns with various attributes- colour, size etc..

Sprayed Snowflakes with make-it-your-own.com (Creative activities for kids)

Sprayed Snowflakes with make-it-your-own.com (Creative activities for kids)

Sprayed Snowflakes with make-it-your-own.com (Creative activities for kids)

Sprayed Snowflakes with make-it-your-own.com (Creative activities for kids)

  • Don your smock.  Put your paper in your craft tray or on a craft table cloth.  (We lied ours on a piece of poster paper so we could use that for another purpose.)
  • Lay your snowflakes onto your paper.
  • Insert your funnel into your spray bottle and add your paint.

Sprayed Snowflakes with make-it-your-own.com (Creative activities for kids)

Sprayed Snowflakes with make-it-your-own.com (Creative activities for kids)

  • Spray over your snowflakes.

Sprayed Snowflakes with make-it-your-own.com (Creative activities for kids)

Sprayed Snowflakes with make-it-your-own.com (Creative activities for kids)

Sprayed Snowflakes with make-it-your-own.com (Creative activities for kids)

  • Change colours in your bottle by pouring the contents back into the original container using the funnel and then adding the new colour through the funnel.  (You can wash it in between if you like)
  • Allow your work to dry and then remove your toy snowflakes, revealing the negative image!

Sprayed Snowflakes with make-it-your-own.com (Creative activities for kids)

Sprayed Snowflakes with make-it-your-own.com (Creative activities for kids)

Purpose

  • Exploring patterning.
  • Discovering how to create a negative image.
  • Using a variety of tools and discovering how they function- in this case a spray bottle and funnel.

Safety Notes

  • We suggest that you wear a smock and use a craft tray to protect your clothing and surfaces.
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