Great Art Project for Kids

Here's a fun and pretty easy art project to do with your kids. It's called Paper Batik.

1. Take a small piece of computer paper (6'x6') and have your child color a design in crayon. (It's important to color the color areas really solid and to leave some white areas on purpose. i.e. leaving white borders in the design).

2. Crumple the paper up really well in to a ball, smashing it. The kids really like this part. Then flatten the paper all out.

3. Next make a tub of batik ink. It's about 1 gallon of water with 1 tablespoon black paint, and 1 tablespoon blue paint. Stir it up.

4. Dip the whole paper design into the the tub. The paper that's exposed will absorb the paint as well as the cracks in the wax crayon colored parts, but the solid crayon part will stay the same. Let them dry outside.

5. If the kids make four different designs they can be out together as a paper quilt. Very cool!