Saturday, May 16, 2015

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

I came across some Watercolor Masking Fluid (aka Rubber Cement) at my stationery store and was quite kicked about it. We painted pages, and pages over a period of few days! So let me take you through the process step by step.

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid



This is bottle! It literally had a piece of paper with the instructions tied up to it with a rubber band! 

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Here's the basic process:

(1) Pour out a little amount in a bowl for use, and close the bottle. 


(2) Dip a brush and let your little kiddo "paint" random pictures! Allow it to completely dry. The first time we used it, it was almost bedtime, so we allowed it to dry overnight. 

A caveat about brushes is that once the fluid dries over it, the damage is irreversible. Washing them immediately may not be practical with little children, so its better to keep "designated damaged brushes" for this purpose! Yes, that means the damaged brushes *were* used several times again! Not an issue for painting squiggles and random shapes. 


Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

This is how it looked when dry:

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

(4) Then paint with watercolor. The pictures were random shapes, and so was the coloring!

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

 (5) Allow the paint to completely dry

(6) Now for the fun part! Rub the dry masking fluid a little and peel it off!

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

some peels were nice and long! peels of laughter and overall excitement!

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Here's how it looked like, dry and peeled:

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Some more peeling:

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

The collection of dried peeled off masking fluid:

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Tried with some poster (tempera) paint too. But the paint was too thick to see thru, couldn't spot the masking fluid! So we could hardly peel anything all all! 

These two are the only ones which turned out okay: 

Concentric Rectangles with Tempera:

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Here's how it looked after peeling off all sides of the rectangles:

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Concentric Circles with Tempera:

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Nice & peeled:

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Back to watercolours:

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

His fave word: "the"


Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

I made some fish, while he peeled some:

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Longer the brush strokes and lines, more the fun it is to peel:

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Preschooler Art With Watercolor Masking Fluid

Unlike paints, I keep the masking fluid bottle in my cupboard away from his reach! He asks for some every now & then. 


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19 comments:

  1. Oh what a pretty and useful technique! I'd love it if you'd share this with this week's Awesome Life Friday Link Up. :) http://rchreviews.blogspot.com/

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  2. Thanks for sharing! My daughter will love this! linking up with you on a mama moments monday:)

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  3. This looks fabulous, my 7 year old woudl love it. I've pinned it thanks, Mich x #MondayPinningParty

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  4. Linking to you through Have a Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson's Share Your Cup Thursday. I'm very interested in this for my daycare! Can I just buy regular rubber cement?
    My email is Blue Jeans And Teacups At G Mail dot c o m
    ;)
    Thank you,
    Heather

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  5. Linking to you through Have a Daily Cup of Mrs. Olson's Share Your Cup Thursday. I'm very interested in this for my daycare! Can I just buy regular rubber cement?
    My email is Blue Jeans And Teacups At G Mail dot c o m
    ;)
    Thank you,
    Heather

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    1. Hi! I live in India, so if I ask for rubber cement they'll gimme quizzical look! Its simply called "watercolour making fluid'! But you'll have no problem getting Elmer's Rubber Cement!

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  6. What a fun project. Watercolor is so pretty too. Thanks for sharing at the #HomeMattersParty - we're looking forward to what you have to share next week. :)

    ~Lorelai
    Life With Lorelai

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  7. This is all kinds of awesome! I've never heard of masking fluid. How long does it normally take to dry? I have a project coming up with a group of kids, and I wonder if we could do both the masking and the watercolor painting in the space of a morning.

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    1. Well! Mine took at least an hour to dry! and it isn't effective if not completely dry. So first you dry the masking fluid, then paint with watercolour, then wait for the paint to dry AGAIN (although watercolours dry quickly) and then rub off the masking fluid!

      Too many instructions and too much waiting for a bunch of 3/4 year olds , which is why I haven't introduced it in my preschooler art class!!

      But perhaps your bunch is older and wiser :) also you can space it out and insert some other activity during the 'drying' periods, kids will get super excited to see how turned out! The pulling is a lot of fun!

      Thanks for stopping by Heather!

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  8. Thank you so much for sharing this awesome project at Inspire Me Monday at Create With Joy! It must appeal to my own inner preschooler sensibilities because I'd love to do this myself! Anyway - I am happy to share your project with my readers - you are featured at our party #177 this week! :-)

    Create With Joy
    http://create-with-joy.com

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    1. Thanks for the feature and the lovely comment !

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  9. I have never heard of this watercolor masking fluid, but it sure looks fun! Thanks for sharing with SYC.
    hugs,
    Jann

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  10. Cute blog post,thanks for sharing this on Fabulous Friday Party, hope to see you this Friday for another party
    Thanks
    Maria

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