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RE: Picture books and art lessons

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From: cen_aca_dp (cen_aca_dp_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 18:35:43 PDT

Has anyone mentioned "Mouse Paint"? Great book about color mixing- I'm sure
many of you have it. "A Big Mistake" by Lenore Rinder is another good one
about a girl who accidentally blobs some paint on her paper & then turns it
into a circus painting. I use this as an inspirstion for a mistake painting.
We look at the painting "Yellow Caterpillar" by Helen Frankenthaler & then the
 kids make a mistake on their paper while I count to ten. They trade it with
someone else and have to turn this blob, line, or spot into something. Great
lesson for substitutes!

Denise Pannell
Defance, OH 

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