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Well we have given into the silly band craze over here. The kids trade, hoard, hide, stretch, bend and wear them to their hearts extent. I have recently incorporated them into our art fun!!
Today we used them to trace, as patterns, and as stencils. We have been dipping them in paint, making sure to clean them right away (per kids request). My boy was quite upset when actually realizing that his silly band was full of paint. He overcame it though once he started to create his artwork with it. He has a new found love for the silly bandz!
Supplies you will need:
Silly bandz
Paper
Paints, markers, crayons
Bucket of water and paper towels
THAT'S IT!!!
The first thing we did was choose our silly bandz that we wanted to use. Let your kids know that they will get messy. What we did was fill a bucket with water, once we used the silly band we threw it into the water to soak. The paint easily came off when we wiped them clean.
Then get your paint ready. The easiest way that we found was to spread the paint out onto coated paper plates. Any work surface will do but from experience when we use a plastic or foam surface as opposed to cardboard or paper the paint lasts longer and it doesn't soak in. If the paint does start to dry add a bit of water to moisten it. We didn't have this problem since the project didn't last too long.
Then we gently laid the silly band flat into the color paint that we wanted. This coated the surface and we were able to use them like a stamp onto the paper. It took a couple of tries for my son because he tends to rush through things, this has to be done somewhat gently in order to not smudge the pattern when pressing it onto the paper. He did get it and the smudgy ones were cute too but he wasn't happy with them.
The kids loved this!!! They chose mostly animal bandz that you can find in your local stores or below.
The stamp work that they did after dunking the bandz into their paint.
Here he used a turtle silly band that he stamped on and then painted it in with the green paint, a guitar band, that he also stamped and hand painted it, and a hippo (the blue one).
So last night I discussed the major BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico with them and showed them some images of the tragedy. I explained to them what happened and how wildlife conservationists were doing the best they could to save the animals. This must have sparked something with my kids because amazingly they created art scenes depicting the incident. I mentioned nothing about it today, we were simply just creating silly bandz art.
This is what they came up with.........
Age 7-
The red is the oil filled waters. The animals that were stamped from the silly bandz include a turtle (yellow bubble that says "stop") a hippo (lol), a man holding the silly band stamped black guitar running on the beach, a bird (yelling "help") and a silly band stamped fish (on the very top jumping off of the page). What a vision, huh? Very saddening to think about and I am glad my son had a chance to get his feelings out in a piece of art.
Age 5-
A silly band stamped boat (on the bottom in pink), someones house on the bottom right (also a silly band) and the big blue and pink hump is a mountain that the silly band turtle is trying to escape on.
Another thing that you could do is glue them on paper as a collage. My kids didn't want to use their bands in this way and get them all icky with glue but it's an idea!
I hope you enjoyed this post. I would love to see what you and your children can create with the silly bandz! Email photos to
dpcustomdesign@yahoo.com and I will post them here for all to view!!!
Most of all HAVE FUN!!!
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