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By guggy

This idea is for the younger students. I taught third grade this year and was looking for some easy spring arts projects to brighten up the room. We used coffee filters and colored them with marker then used a spray bottle
to spray the filter. The colors blended together and they turned out wonderfully. We then used a yellow construction paper circle and glued it to the middle for a the center of a flower and glued a stem on the back. Believe it or not the kids loved it! Even the boys. They thought it was neat how the colors ran together. I also had them cut out a butterfly (from my pattern). It had the

general outline of a butterfly shape but with holes cut in the wings. We glued the filters in between the two butterfly cutouts and wa-la! IT was quite colorful. I also had the idea to do the same thing for the solar system unit. Unfortunately the unit was over at the time. I don't know if tissue paper would work or not. It may not be thin enough to make the colors bleed. Try a test patch and see!Good Luck