Batik peacocks

This is the last of my series of around-the-world art projects with kids.  This one is really easy and really fun!  We learned a little about the process of batik, or wax-resist dying.  To do it in a kid-friendly way, we colored on printer paper with crayon all the way out to the edges of the paper and then crumpled the paper and watercolored over it with blue watercolor and let it dry.

So pretty!

Then we cut those pieces of paper into feather shapes and mounted them into construction paper peacock bodies!  We glued the whole thing to textured (read: crumpled) craft paper for structural stability.

So cool!