Coloring With Alcohol-Soluble And Wood Stain

Materials:

1. Alcohol-soluble wood in stain in various colors (gold-yellow, bright red, pure blue, green violet and oak brown are the most important.)

2. Spirit or alcohol (for the mixing of colors and cleaning)

3. Absorbent white paper

4. Broad brushes

5. Plastic covers and newspaper to protect your table.

6. Rubber gloves

How To Make:

Dissolve the wood stains according to the printed instruction on the can and then apply one with even brush strokes to your paper. When you have dissolved and applied several colors side by side, try overlapping them on the paper. This way you will obtain a differentiated scale of colored papers which you are not likely to encounter in stationery stores.

Caution: It is very hard to remove stains; for this reason protect your tables and floors with thick paddings of newspapers or plastic covers. For very young groups it is advisable to stay away from this project because of the unavoidable danger of staining.

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Wax Crayon Papers

Materials:
a white household candle or paraffin
wax crayons
drawing paper
poster colors
pocketknife

How To Make:

Coat your sheet of paper by rubbing a candle all over it. On this, paint a base with well-harmonizing wax crayons. The whole sheet must now be colored wuth a dark crayon. Next, with a pointed object, for example the tip of your knife, scratch line or whole areas out of the top crayon layer until the more colorful ground begins to show through.

A variation of this is to cover the colored crayon base with diluted poster colors, seeing to it that the two layers are aesthetically suited to one another. After the paper has dried, scratch out a pattern to your liking. To make a pre-arranged design possible, the outlines of the colored areas can be traced on transparent paper.

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