Book Love: Swatch: The Girl Who Loved Color

I once again send some thanks to KidArtLit - they are such a wonderful resource for combining books and process art in fun and meaningful ways! Awhile back they did a live video all about this book and I was inspired yet again to try out the art activity that they created to go along with it. I saved it for my summer art play class, and it was just perfect.

This book is imaginative and bright, with illustrations that seem to move and come to life. I love the way that it relates colors to everyday objects, but with a child-like perspective. After we read it, we looked back at the techniques the illustrator seemed to use in her artwork with black lines and swirling colors.

Connecting Activity: We called this activity creating wild colors.
First- we drew lines and shapes using straight edges, circular lids, and our own creativity.

Then we mixed together some paint with a little water. I added some cotton balls and fly swatters to the table, and we started to play. The kids experimented with dropping the cotton balls and watching them splatter, slapping them with the fly swatters, and moving the cotton balls around on the paper.

The process was very engaging, and the results were so fun and colorful.