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Hi friends,

We’re bringing you our Watercolor World Earth Day Craft in honor of Earth Day. We spent time outside playing, enjoying the sun, the air, and working up a sweat! We also created our craft outdoors and had a tiny guest “crafter” aka my youngest, MJ, join us! Check it out below.

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What You'll Need

1 White Heavy Weight Construction Paper
1 Pink & 1 Black Construction paper
Large Mug/Small Bowl
Pencil
Glue
Watercolors
Rinsing Cup
Hole Punch
Yarn/String
optional: Wax Paper, Cookie Tray, World Map,

DIY Watercolors

Use 1/8 cup or 1oz of water with 2 squirts of paint inside small containers. The amount of paint is really up to you. Mix well and then use as needed.

Optional: Use a cookie tray to hold the paint and catch any paint spills.

The Steps

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WORLD

Fold the paper in half and draw a circle with your cup/bowl on both sides and further up on the paper.

2. Draw your land and water; they don’t need to be accurate.

3. Cut the lower half of the paper and reserve the extra piece for later.

MJ LOVED playing with the brushes and paint.

PAINTING

We applied the paints one at a time, then overlapped them and eventually layered more to darken them.
We then cut out both sides and let them dry momentarily.
Glue both sides together, leaving the edges open to insert the feet and hands.

optional: You can cut out the feet/hands while your painting dries or create the face. We chose the face first.

DETAILS

Punch a hole at the top
Punch out 2 eyes from the black paper and two rosy cheeks from the pink paper.
Draw a smile on the black paper, cut it out, and then glue the eyes and the cheeks onto the world.
Cut out hands and feet from the extra white/ black paper, glue them between the papers or on top, and then make sure to seal the edges when you’re done.

ASSEMBLE

Cut about 6in. of yarn and tie a knot with the 2 ends.
Feed the yarn through the hole and through the yarn loop, then pull tight.

That’s it!

Our Earth Day buddies! Mine, MJ’s, Naomi’s

I jokingly said that mine had “bangs” as the green around the eyes looked so much like side-swept bangs.

My youngest is 22 months and really enjoyed the watercolors and brushing his paper wildly with paint. Maybe it was dipping his brush in the colored liquid and spilling lots of it. LOL. Either way, we had fun, and it came together very quickly.