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Age Range: 7 to 12
Grade Range: 2 to 6
Skill Level: Advanced
Appropriate for These Special Events:
Every Day and Rainy Days
Supports Subject Area(s) of:
Language Arts – e.g. step by step instructions
Mathematics - measuring
Visual Arts
Time Needed for Project:
2 hours plus drying time
Main Materials:
Elmer's® school glue
Elmer's® school glue gel
Elmer's® Blue glitter glue
Elmer's® paint pen in black
Plaid® Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in peach
Plaid® Folk Art Paint in light blue, yellow, brown
Plaid® Martha Stewart Crafts™ bird stencil
Plaid® Stencil applicators
Horizon Mini pink pom-poms
   
Basic Materials:
Popcorn
Canvas
Paint brushes
Decorative paper
White, pink and light pink tissue papers
1" hole punch
Instructions:
- Base coat the canvas blue.
- Popped corn can be colored with acrylic paint. Place 2 cups of popped corn in plastic bag and add 2 tablespoons of peach paint. Toss until the popcorn in colored and layout on newspaper while it dries. **DO NOT eat the colored popcorn**
- Tear pieces of white tissue paper. Add them to the canvas with the blue glitter glue, building up layers and sealing them by painting blue glitter glue over top.
- Brush a coat of blue glitter glue over the entire canvas.
- Apply the branch stencil to the canvas with brown paint-use a stencil dabber to apply the paint. Set aside to dry. Next add the bird in gold.
- Optionally, you can seal the stenciled areas with clear gel glue
- Cut 1" circles of pink and light pink tissue paper. Fold around the end of a pencil (like and umbrella) and use white school to glue to the canvas with popcorn in the center.
- Optionally you can add mini pom-poms to the popcorn blossoms with white school glue.
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