Monet water lilies





This is a variation on candle wax drawing using wax crayons instead of candle wax. This activity is named after Claude Monet who did a series of 250 water lily impressionist paintings.





Materials


A4 paper


Scissors


HB pencil


Wax crayons


Blue food dye





Procedure


- Hold the A4 paper landscape orientation. Fold the bottom left corner to the top edge of the paper.


-Cut off the small rectangle on the right side of the paper. Unfold the paper and you should have a square.


-One the square piece of paper use a HB pencil to draw a flower which takes up most of the paper. Draw the flower sitting on a lily pad.


-Once the flower and Lilly pad is drawn colour it in using wax crayons.


-Scrunch the picture up multiple times until the paper becomes soft.


- Flatten the picture out and paint over the whole picture using blue food dye. Soak up excess dye with paper towel.


-Iron the back of the picture to get rid of any creases