The Button Box - Sun Prints
>> Sunday, July 17, 2011
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We did some fun button activities to follow the book, like threading buttons, sorting buttons, carrying buttons around everywhere (for Mommy to find strewed all over the house). We also glued buttons to make collages.
But a really fun thing we did with the buttons is make sun prints on special sun printing paper I bought with a coupon at JoAnns a long time ago.
The sun turns the paper all white, then you "develop" the print in water to prevent the paper from being further exposed.
You may be able to do this with cheap construction paper, but you would probably have to keep the collage in the sun all day.
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6 comments:
Fun! This would be a perfect go-along for Corduroy - I will have to remember this one. =)
Sunprints are on my summer bucket list, we were going to try it with construction paper.
I had checked that book out at the library last year during our Miss Mary Mack theme (because she had buttons down her back) but it was a little too advanced for my daughter at the time.
Neat! I still want to read this book - better order it now while I remember about it.
wonderful! am tucking this activity in my pocket of things we must do here :) just lovely
I love this idea. We've never experimented with sunpaper. I'll have to see where I can purchase it. Thanks so much for sharing your idea. I love having your blog as a resource! :)
My son loves the button book! I have never even heard of sun paper, but it looks really cool :)
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