Pastel Resist Butterflies

Here is another pastel resist project. I love these resists....so much you can find a fish one here and a Madonna one here.

Grade 1 is working on their Butterfly unit right now they even have several chrysalis in the classroom that they are patiently watching.

Materials Required:

white paper

pastels

tempera paint

paintbrush

scissors

pipecleaner for antennae

I talked to the kids first about designing their butterflies. We wanted butterflies with some pattern on them like a Monarch..not one that was a solid color.

The drew out their design in pencil first and then using pastel colored in the butterfly.

We then took their finished drawing and crumpled it into a ball like we were throwing it out ( the kids always love this part ).

You now need to uncrumple it and smooth it flat.

Using some watery tempera we painted over the whole design..the pastel resists the paint making a cool "beading up" pattern on the butterfly.

We put them aside to dry....we were cutting ours out but if you don't care to make sure you paint the background fully.

When they are dry you can cut them out. We taped a pipecleaner to the back for the antennae

Terrific!

gail