Yesterday I tackled the massive feat of cleaning out my arts and craft cupboard, a task not dealt with since late January. Since that time, many an item has been thrown haphazardly into the depths by myself or my assistant and it was becoming impossible to find anything in there. In a rare quiet window of time I delved into the chaos and wow! The things I discovered! Things that I didn’t even realise were there (which reminded me that it was my assistant who cleaned the bottom half of the cupboard last time – I had no idea what was there)!
It was like Christmas Day for me.
One of the magnificent things that I found was a packet of colour diffusing paper (which you can buy here). Basically, you draw/colour on the paper with markers, food colouring, dye… then you lightly mist the paper with water and voila! Watch the colours diffuse and blend throughout the page. Magic!
The children thought this paper was absolutely the best thing ever – we spent part of our afternoon drawing our favourite animals in markers and then spraying them, watching them become ‘furry’ as the colours spread along their pages.
I loved hearing their descriptions of what the paper felt like (soft and dry were two that I heard repeated) and their excitement as the colours diffused. Interestingly enough, brown marker had the best reaction as we found the colour green seperated from the brown quite strongly!
Hurray for ‘magic’ paper!
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