Elmer is such a cute little elephant and when we saw David McKee's series in Spanish, my husband and I couldn't help but buy a couple of them for Bear.Our project is similar to this one by Mouse Grows, Mouse Learns.
We used watered down white glue and tissue paper on regular printer paper, just like we did in the butterfly project.
After the whole thing had dried and I had cut it out, Bear rubbed vegetable oil all over the project to give it a translucent effect (see bottom two photos).
These make great sun catchers in our window.
I made the bird one.
(I felt that if I made an elephant one too it would hinder Bear's creative process and she might feel like she had to make hers look like mine.)
To see other stART projects, see A Mommy's Adventure
They came out great!!!
ReplyDeleteYour Elmer looks so-so much better than ours :) I love the book, and I love what Bear did with it. It's awesome that she gets to read it in Spanish too.
ReplyDeleteWow! The elephant turned out very nice - it really looks like the book cover.
ReplyDeleteWe love the Elmer books in Spanish too. I mentioned your blog in my post today.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great project!! Thanks for linking up :0)
ReplyDeleteThis looks fun--I had no idea about the vegetable oil--we will definitely be trying this. Thanks for sharing. They both look great!
ReplyDeleteThey both turned out so nice! We've done oil with painted paper, but I never thought to do it with tissue paper - what a great idea!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute project. We haven't read this book yet, but it is on our list to check out.
ReplyDeleteThis book is also on our to be read list. Cute craft idea. It has been awhile since we worked with tissue paper.
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