Promenade Dans Les Bois: Pencil Shaving Art

Keeping up with our discovery of the woods, and beyond, we continue to explore the beauty of the season. Last week, we "branched" out in our art session. Interestingly, this was not the intention at the beginning of the day (or our session for that matter).

I began by sharpening the pencil crayons that the children needed (we only use a few colours, or everything gets chaotic). 
As I was setting up our activity, I noticed a beautiful array of colours from the shavings. I wondered what we could do with it :), so I collected all the shavings and decided to make coloured pencil shaving art with the kids.

Materials:
– we used our sketch books (the page can be ripped out and framed) 
– pencil shavings 
– glue/glue stick
– pencil

Method

-– draw outline of picture you want to fill in

-– spread glue on paper or canvas

-– gather up pencil shavings

-– spread pencil shavings on glued paper

-– brush off excess shavings
-- I like to put a piece of paper of top of the art and close the book. This keeps the pieces in tact.

This is a great and easy way to recycle pencil crayon shavings. 
Happy crafting.