Paint With Broccoli: Fun Stamped Spring Tree
Save a couple stalks of fresh broccoli back from your meal and paint redbud trees and clouds, making a Fun Stamped Spring Tree!
Cost: $2
Equipment
- Paint brushes
- 1 Paper Plate
Ingredients
- 1 8x10" Stretched Canvas
- Acrylic paints- light sky blue, brown, green, light pastel pink, pink, red-violet
- Stalks of broccoli
Instructions
- Put some paper down under the canvas to keep the paint off your table. Paint the whole canvas the light sky blue color with an actual paint brush, including the sides of the canvas. Allow a few minutes for the paint to dry before continuing.
- Place the painting up and down before going on to the next step.
- Squirt some white paint out on a paper plate. Dip the head of the broccoli into the paint and then onto the top area of the canvas to make clouds. Make the clouds light and airy with rounded edges.
- Using some of the brown paint and a paint brush, have the grands paint a trunk to the tree that starts at the bottom edge of the canvas. The trunk will extend about one third of the way up the canvas and get narrower as it goes up.
- From the top of the trunk they will make 4-6 branches that reach out to about an inch from the edges of the canvas. These branches will keep dividing and branching out into smaller and smaller branches.
- Place four blobs of paint on a clean paper plate using the two different tones of pink, the red-violet and the green paint. Place the blobs fairly close together so the head of the broccoli will dip into all four blobs at once.
- With a second piece of fresh broccoli, have the grands dip into the four blobs of paint and then dab the paint onto the canvas. It will make a mottled grouping of the four colors. The idea is to get the paint to look like the multi-colored buds of the blooming redbud tree.
- Continue to dip into the paints on the plate and dab the buds on the tree until the grands are satisfied with how it looks.