Abstract Shadow Designs

Ages 3+

What You’ll Need:

• Paper
• Pencil
• Coloring material of your choice: markers or paint!
• Crayons (optional) to do watercolor techniques
• Your best shadow finding eyeballs!

Creating Your Design: Let in The Sunshine!

• Search around your house, your garden, your sidewalk
• Look for areas where the sun is shining down and casting the shadows of various objects in interesting ways on the sidewalk or your floor: maybe you see shapes or lines or cool blobs!
• Take your paper and place it down right on those shadows and TRACE them.
• When you remove your paper: what do you see?
• The shadows you’ve traced have created abstract shapes or maybe even some recognizable shapes
• Let’s add COLOR: choose markers, crayons, paint, WHATEVER YA GOT! Color in your shadow design.

Extra Challenge: can you find shadows that look like letter(s) in your name?

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