Learn Greatness With Ocean Books (cont.)

I used our next group of books as the stage for a fun painting activity! I actually recalled doing this when I was little.  I wasn't sure how it would all turn out but we tried it and it worked!  Here are the books we read.  They are from our own library so we have read them many times before:

After reading our books, we talked about the different ocean animals we observed.  We began drawing our animals with crayons.  My son likes to look up how to draw each ocean animal, but my daughter and I just used the books.  

After we finished adding our final animal, I brought out the paint.  We used a basic water color palette.  We had to use plenty of water and the blue paint.  As we painted over our picture the magic began to happen!  The crayon repelled the water allowing only the white paper to be covered in a blue tint!  Again, use plenty of water to get a lighter tint!