bubble wrap ocean print & giveaway!

you know i adore my brilliant and inspirational bloggy friend, pink & green mama. this weekend, she will begin selling an awesome art lesson plan booklet (in pdf form) called “ocean fun art camp lesson plans” on her blog. we got our hands on an advance copy – how special is that? you can get a copy, too! read on – there’s a juicy giveaway* at the end of this blog entry… (*closed as of 7/23/10 midnight)

we have already done pink & green mama’s wooden mermaid clothespin dolls that are featured in the booklet, and they were a huge hit over here! these little sea maidens continue to provide hours of playtime enjoyment.

remember these? they're in the book!

N and i looked through the great instructional photos illustrating each super-inventive exercise in pink & green mama’s booklet. N picked one that she wanted to try out today (and she graciously said we can save the other 11 art activities in the book for tomorrow. we’re gonna be busy over here!) this afternoon we experimented with bubble wrap ocean printing!

we followed pink & green mama’s very clear instructions to paint the bubble wrap on the bumpy side with washable acrylic paint. N chose many shades of blues, greens, and purple and decided to apply it in a stripey pattern.

after N painted the bubble wrap, she pressed it onto cardstock. (you can use any paper thick enough to hold up to acrylic paint.) it made the greatest bubbly ocean!

pink & green mama gives detailed instructions for making your own very clever ocean-themed stamps (while recycling!) to press onto the scene; however, this time N preferred to paint the sea creatures herself instead of printmaking. she was inspired by a trip we took to the monterey bay aquarium over the weekend – such beautiful exhibits! i have to share at least one photo with you!

gorgeous sea nettles!

N got down to business, painting away with the acrylics and chatting about all kinds of sea animals she saw at the aquarium. this art lesson booklet is so timely — such an enriching addition to our summer fun!

we were able to make three pages of prints with just one coat of paint in the bubble wrap. each one was a bit lighter than the one before, but that made for great subtle backgrounds for the paintings.

we had such a giggly, bubbly fun time! here are the three pieces N made:

(yep, one of them involves a girl and her dog snorkeling...?)

pink & green mama has done it again – crafty excellence! this activity book is chocked full of oceanic fun like this! i highly recommend it to any parent or teacher out there who makes art with kids ages 3-9. the instructions are clear and concise, the photos are fabulous, each of the 12 activities includes a supply list, and all templates are printable.

GIVEAWAY ENDED JULY 23RD, 2010:

to WIN A FREE COPY of these wonderful art lesson plans, leave a COMMENT HERE by clicking “comments” to the upper left. you’ll have 3 chances to enter the drawing:

for your first comment, state your most vivid art memory from your own childhood.
“like” paintcutpaste.com on facebook and leave a comment stating that you now “like” us (or that you have liked us all along. aw, thanks!)
link to this blog entry on your blog and leave a third comment showing us the link to where you mentioned it.

leave your comments BEFORE MIDNIGHT EST FRIDAY, JULY 23RD. at that time, i will draw the winner based on a random number. please also include your email address in the body of the comments so that pink & green mama can send you a copy of this awesome book when you win! GOOD LUCK TO ALL!

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patty walsh (#23) is the winner of pink & green mama’s ocean fun art camp lesson plans pdf booklet. CONGRATS, patty! it’s an awesome book – enjoy! her comment was:

My most vivid art memory as a child would have to be when I was about 4. I remember going in to my Mom’s make up and mixing water with eye shadows to make paint. I remember having such a good time, I don’t even think my Mom got mad. It really was a great experience!

Tags: bubble wrap, giveaway, green, ocean, paint, printmaking, recycle, summer

07.21

2010

by jen
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http://theearthisourteacher.blogspot.com FroggyMama

What a great giveaway! I saw the pdf the other day and have been wanting to see it.

I grew up in a very artsy household, so I remember lots of creative endeavors. But one of my strongest memories, which I happened to be thinking about the other day, is from second grade. We must not have been very busy, because I remember everyone sitting around doing lots of nothing. I decided to fill the time with a crafty pursuit – and proceeded to make a little model briefcase out of light yellow paper, tape, and scissors. I remember being so involved in my little project, and everyone standing around waiting to see what I was creating. I also remember getting in trouble with my teacher for using too much paper and tape. Ah, she was just jealous of my creativity.
http://belle-n-bee.blogspot.com Becky

Guess what we’ll be doing this afternoon….we just happen to have some bubble wrap that came in the mail yesterday. Thanks for sharing this great resource. Looks like lots of fun!
beckymac1@hotmail.com
http://theaddamsremedy.blogspot.com Mrs Addams

i used to love making dioramas when i was a kid! it was always fun!
http://theaddamsremedy.blogspot.com Mrs Addams

i ‘liked’ you a long time ago! and i just keep liking you more and more!
http://sippycupcentralmom.blogspot.com sippy cup mom

I just loved the sinks in the art room as a kid, those big half moon shapes that squirt water out when you put your hands under them. It’s funny I remember that. Plus, I loved pudding finger paint as a kid. I follow both of you. Thanks, Karen
Sippy Cup Central
http://www.whitechocolatebunny.wordpress.com Margie

What a great giveaway!

I’m already a fan on FB!

My most vivid memory was grating up crayons and sandwiching them between wax paper to melt with an iron. when they were done, we hung them in the windows for the light to shine thru. We also cut some up into shapes, punched a hole in them and made ornaments!
http://lisannesblog.net/ Lisanne

My most vivid art memory … I had *so* much fun creating pottery in elementary school art class. I made a mug that my parents still have! I loved shaping it and painting it, then seeing it change after it was fired. I also won an art contest when I was growing up … couldn’t believe it!
Melissa Jordan

WOW! these look great!! I can’t wait to try these ideas with my 4 year old daughter! She loves bubble wrap for popping and printing! I’m also an art teacher and these would be awesome for Elementary age kids!! THANKS!
Karla

My most vivid memory of art as a kid was getting to paint ceramic masks in school. Mine had no rhyme or reason of course and always hung in my playhouse. Another project we did was tile painting probably about 1st grade. Our family kept one and the other was kept for a wall in the Media Center. Ironically I get to look at it everyday at work as an adult!
Julie Mullins

I think my earliest memories that stand out are painting with finger paints at a pre-school play group. The booklet looks brilliant and I am off to check it out.
AnnaLucia

These are most assuredly some fabulous fun-filled ideas….eager to use them!!
What a grand give-away!
Thank you for keeping art alive…..my most vivid memory was working on “report” covers w/ my father especially one I’d written in 2nd grade about birds. the construction paper cover was great fun to create along w/ my illustrating it for every bird I reported on. I still have it….and I’m now 60 and teaching Kindergarten!!!
http://mollymum.redbubble.com/ Colleen Battistoni

My most vivid memory would be my model horse painting. I would repaint my model horses and also make them all sorts of tack, blankets, accessories. I would spend hours working on them.

Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!

My website… http://mollymum.redbubble.com/
My blog… http://mollymum.blogspot.com/
erin

i love making books. the first book i made was in 3rd grade. the cover is wallpaper samples and the binding is duct tape. the title is “when i grow up”. each page is my thumb print that i then decorated into a figure of what i might want to be when i grow up (including the first woman president and to be able to decorate my own room). i still have it!
erinfraziermaskiell@yahoo.com
erin

and i already like you on fb, but i’m doing it again!
http://mollymum.redbubble.com/ Colleen Battistoni

I shared my most vivid art memory (previous comment), liked you on FaceBook, and here is my Blog post…
http://mollymum.blogspot.com/
Annette Standrod

I remember making a pinata in 3rd grade. In 4th grade I remember taking private art lessons.
Annette Standrod

I have liked you all along! aburkman@hotmail.com
Leslie Cooper

My K teacher taught me how to curl paper strips around safety scissors so we could make 3 dimensional artwork! I use this same technique with my own Kindergarteners today
JEssica Eveleigh

love it! Love your blog!
Loved Mr. Roberti’s art classes in high school…i remember listening to Don McLean’s “Starry, Starry Night” with dim lights as we painted.
http://theadventuresofbear.blogspot.com Julie

I like you on facebook.
http://theadventuresofbear.blogspot.com Julie

My most vivid art memory would be spending all my free time in fifth grade (classroom time) drawing dollhouses complete with dollhouse furniture and people.

This seems like a great pdf. Thanks.

juliecerdas at gmail dot com
http://twolittleseeds.blogspot.com/ twolittleseeds

Great giveaway…I need some new ideas for the holidays just started here today!
My memory is of being 11 at school painting a ragdoll in a chair dressed in my dad’s old shirt as an apron.
LisaG

My favorite childhood art memory was making a “store” filled with handmade mud “wares” and paid for with “mud money!”. We clearly advertised our “stock” with our muddy hands and clothing!
Patty Walsh

My most vivid art memory as a child would have to be when I was about 4. I remember going in to my Mom’s make up and mixing water with eye shadows to make paint. I remember having such a good time, I don’t even think my Mom got mad. It really was a great experience!
Patty Walsh

I like you on facebook!
Fleur

I recently found your blog and LOVE it! Thanks for such a job well done.
Fleur

And I just liked you on FB, too!
Fleur

Sorry, favorite childhood art memory. I remember going to Stage Fort Park in Glouceter MA (where I grew up) with friends and their moms as a 5 or 6 year old. We all gathered nature objects on the beach, dug a wide, shallow hole and laid out our treasures. The moms filled the holes with plaster of paris and we all signed our artwork. I remember that sandy, shell and seaweed piece hanging on my parents’ bedroom all through my childhood. Can’t wait to do it with my own kids!
http://mama-days.blogspot.com cali

First grade, Miss Bryant’s class. We were all given paper to draw christmas trees, and the one w/ the best tree would be chosen to paint the big tree on the hall bulletin board. Everyone else drew big green triangles, but I drew my tree with swags of branches down the sides, like the ones in the cartoons. It’s a funny incident to me now, b/c it boosted my confidence that I won (and a teacher from another class came to be the judge!) yet it enforced the idea that art is something to be judged, that there is some particular way to do it that will be the “best”. Been fighting that since.
http://mama-days.blogspot.com cali

already liked you on fb, and want to say i’m so glad you’re there…. the fb updates are great, and a very helpful reminder to keep me on track w/ producing with my kids.
Cass Barberena

When I was in 6th grade we did an art project where we scraped away this black substance to create a picture. i either don’t what it was called or I can’t remember, but it was the be pice of artwork I had done up to that point. I have to this day.
Cass Barberena

I don’t have a blog, but I posted you on my FB page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pink-and-Green-Mama-Blog/126513465897?v=wall#!/profile.php?id=1154064591
http://mama-days.blogspot.com cali

here’s the link to my blog post: http://mama-days.blogspot.com/2010/07/only-kid-blues.html
http://mamenakafepauzi.blogspot.com/ Ana

I’ve always loved scissors and glue. My mother still tells the story when I made a ”collage” out of two new sweaters. I cut them in piecees, and glued them onto a piece of wood (using glue I wasn’t alowed to use). I guess I thought the fabric were pretty .
Ana mameneradenarepeat@gmail.com
Dawn

My most vivid art memory from childhood is making a scrap wood sculpture in kindergarten. I actually remember it VERY well, and even kept the sculpture for many, many years. It was so fun and I have already done that project with my own 5 year old!
http:threesneakybugs.wordpress.com Anna

We’re leaving for the ocean in just over 3 weeks, so good timing! As for a memory, that’s hard. My mom was an art teacher so art was a constant. But I would have to say making these squiggly circular drawings with pastels. Nothing fancy, but I did it over and over and over again.
Chrissi

Looking to start Art for Toddlers. This will be a resource to use to allow them to explore without worrying about the end result. All tots are artists!
chrissik1@gmail.com
Agnes

My most vivid art memory from childhood was a flower collage in the third grade. I tore bits of yellow, green, and orange paper and loved how those tiny pieces came together to make one large picture. Also from the third grade, I remember when I met my best friend on the first day of school. She had the Crayola 64 crayons box with crayon sharpener on her desk and I oohed and aahed at all the colors.
Agnes

Sorry, my email address is agnesdlv@yahoo.com.
http://morningsunrae.blogspot.com rae

so fun!! my most vivid memory is carving a snowman/winter scene into a styrofoam meat tray. it was chosen to be displayed at the art museum! i was in maybe 2nd grade.
http://karlaandmattthielbar.blogspot.com/ Karla

Love the teamwork ladies! This book would be a valuable asset to my tropical classroom.
Karla

http://karlaandmattthielbar.blogspot.com/
http://www.twigandtoadstool.blogspot.com twigandtoadstool

Favourite childhood art memory…hmmmmmm…
There were many, but the one that comes to mind first is the time I made a witch doll with my English nanny…she was teaching me how to sew, and the witch’s body was made with an old piece of pantyhose!! Oh, I wish I still had her!!!
Love the bubble wrap idea…we just got some too, (for wet felting), but perhaps we’ll make these pictures instead!!!
xo maureen
http://cowsgomooandducksgoquack.blogspot.com Gianne

I saw the idea of bubble wrap painting on Chaising Cheerios (blog)! But, I LOVE this idea. Perhaps we should return again to this idea with a twist. I was wondering how young your little one is because I am not sure my almost four year old can paint octopuses and fish. But, besides, I just love the different layers of colors in general versus our free-for-all bubble wrap painting: http://cowsgomooandducksgoquack.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html You always inspire me!
http://paintcutpaste.com jen

hi gianne – thanks for your comment. it is such a fun activity! to answer your question about age, N will be 3.5 on monday. on her own, she began drawing people and then trying to writing her name at 2 years 7 months, so she is now able to draw sea creatures and lots of other things, too… she BEGS to make art every day, and loves to spend a ton of time on her magna doodle each day drawing. she sort of baffles me, but i’m going with it!
christine

starting back to teaching art in August- this will be a great project for my students- thanks! please enter me
christine

Oops- totally didn’t read the directions for entering the give-away.
1. My most vivid memory of an art project from when I was young was at home with my mom. She belonged to a pottery guild and would bring home hunks of clay for me and my brothers and sisters to play with. We’d all sit around the kitchen table and make a mess. It was great. I think it contributed to me being an art teacher today. 2. I am already a friend on fb and like you (yay!)
and 3. sadly I don’t have a blog but do enjoy this one!
christine
my email is patetes@charter.net

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