Glue

At our art center on Thursday the kids got to learn how to use glue.  What kid doesn't just want to squirt glue with out having an adult say, "oh, that's enough".  So I thought I would let them have some open ended play with glue. 

 

I added some liquid water color to some glue bottles and chose to have a paper plate be their medium - so it would provide somewhat of a natural boundary.

 

I taught the kids how to open and close the glue bottles, and how to squeeze them.

Each kid made about 5 plates of beautiful glue art.  Some had great designs full of lines and squiggles - others (like megan) loved to make her art "blobby" and add color on top of color.

They liked to see how high they could hold the glue in the air and still have it hit the plate.  At the end of the day I think they all became experts on how to perfectly control the amount of glue you want and how have it go where you want it to go.