Watercolor Crayon Resist Painting

For this simple painting technique, we used watercolors, water and brush, paper, and a white crayon.

Since I have a toddler I prepared in advance several sheets of paper and draw different images over with white crayon. I tried to give her white crayon to do it herself, but she kept saying that she doesn’t want to draw with white crayon because nothing shows on paper. So I had to draw it myself to show her how it will appear after painting. Kind of magic!

Once you draw images using white crayon, let the toddler paint over it using watercolors. Have to say that biggest problem if your toddler never used watercolors before, will be to get them to use enough water, or better said, just enough water. But with a little practice, they will get it fast.

I explained to my little girl to first use lighter, more watered paint to find the images that were hidden on the paper, and then to paint those images. She discovered some Easter eggs on one of the paper, on other hearts were hidden and on the third she found flowers.If you have a preschooler or an older child, you can get them to do the white crayon drawings by themselves, or even exchange papers with secret drawings and reveal them by painting over.

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