Sunday, May 10, 2015

Flower Word Families using Crayon Resist Art


My preschooler has been working on CVC words and now we are grouping them together into word families.  With May bringing up beautiful flowers I thought we would incorporate flowers into this activity.

To make learning more fun I used some magic!  Actually, it's simply crayon resist art but to my preschooler it's magic! To do our Crayon Resist Art we tried Homemade Liquid Watercolors that we learned about from There's Just One Mommy.  This is such a fun way to make your own watercolors.  Check out the post to learn how!

To start I cut out some flowers on white paper and in the middle of each flower I wrote the ending letters of the word family.  For this activity we worked on -ap, -et and -ot.  Then on each flower petal I wrote the words ending in these sounds using a white crayon.

Finally, I let my preschooler use our watercolors and paint the flower petals.  She was super excited to see words 'magically' appear.  We sounded out the words and once all done she wanted to make flower stems and flower roots!!




We have kept the final creation on our wall so that we could review the words we learned!


8 comments:

  1. Oh, what a fun idea!
    They really do love crayon-resist art! (Even my 7 year-old gets a kick out of me hiding things with white crayon!)

    We will have to try this this spring! So far we've done word families with construction paper flowers, but painting is always tons of fun for kids!

    Thanks so much to linking back to the watercolors post!

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    1. The expression on my daughters face when she painted and the words appeared....priceless! She thinks it's magic!

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  2. This is so beautiful! Thank you for sharing it with us #pintorials

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  4. Such a creative idea! Thanks for linking up at the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop! We hope you join us again next week!

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  5. How cool! I think we'd really like to try this.
    Thank you for linking up at the Laugh & Learn. We hope to see you this Tuesday!

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    1. The kids love the 'magic' with the crayon and the paint!

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