Water Resistant Wax Hearts

Being Valentine's Day, I did a heart craft with the students. This is an activity where the students used wax to crate their hearts, then painted over the wax with water colours. Because the wax made the paper water resistant in the areas they drew, even thought the wax was clear, the paint could not stain the paper where the wax was applied, leaving beautiful, colorful backgrounds with crisp white heart outlines.

Here are the examples I did

Here are some of the works-in-progress

And finally here are a few of the students final creations. I was unable to get all of them because I forgot to take a picture before we started packing them up.

Here is the lesson plan I created for this activity:

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