Patriotic Project

It is challenging to come up with projects for a toddler and a preschooler to do together.  Finn was requesting a project yesterday and I couldn't think of anything that we could mix up that Josette could do given her propensity for eating anything and everything.  Then, I remembered this project.  I may have posted about it before.  You take construction paper and draw on it with q-tips dipped in oil (olive in this case).  Then, you hang it in the window and the oil "glows" with the sun shining through it.  Of course, in my head, I saw both kids sitting and happily drawing on the paper.  In reality, it was a big mess of oil, but they had a lot of fun together.  To make it Independence day related, we used red, white, and blue paper.

Here they start drawing, then Josette tries with her hand:

 Oh, that was fun, more hand dipping:

 Ah, Finn gets the idea now:

 Oil everywhere:

 Kind of big blobs, but still pretty:

 Finn helpfully picking up Josette to show her the results: