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Creature Painting

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Kids create a free-form art piece using paper, water-based paints, markers, and imagination. They allow the paints to randomly bleed, mix, and move on the paper, then they look for forms in the organic images. They black-line the shapes they see. 

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creativity, imagination

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creative thinking, imagination, art project, Drawing, free form art, visual and performing arts
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Grade
K - 4th
Subjects
Visual & Performing Arts
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