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Activities for youth groups can be a challenge to boys and girls as well as adult leaders.
Divide groups into workable units - twelve to fifteen boys and/or girls make a good size group.
Use the ideas and suggestions in this bulletin, but encourage the boys and girls to use their own
ideas and designs.
As your group advances from activities to creative crafts, consult your county home economics
agent for more detailed information.
PAINTING
Painting is fun if the child is free to express
his own ideas. Never ask children to trace
around a pattern or to copy other work. Help
them to assemble materials. Arrange a suitable
work space and teach them how to protect clothing and work area. A man's old shirt is a good
coverall. The teacher may provide inspiration
by telling a story or talking with the children
about animals, nature, etc. Listening to music
often inspires a child.
1. Finger Painting -
Materials: Finger paint—use this recipe
1 l/2c. laundry starch
1 1/2 c. soap flakes
1 qt. boiling water
1/2 c. talcum (optional)
1 teaspoon glycerine, and
food coloring or poster paint
Mix starch with enough cold water to make
a paste, adding boiling water, stirring until
clear and glossy. Add talcum. Cool mixture
and add soap flakes, stirring until evenly
distributed. Mixture should be thick. Pour
into jars and add food color or paint. Keep
in cool place.
Paper (glossy paper, such as butcher paper
or shelf paper - 18" x 24").
Procedure: Immerse paper in water, then
lay on table or floor. (Surface
may be protected by plastic or oil cloth.)
Apply paint and allow child to spread paint
all over paper with his hands. When finished,
lay painting on newspaper to dry. When dry,
iron painting on wrong side to remove
wrinkles.
2. Soap Painting -
Materials: Soap, glossy paper, food coloring
or poster paint.
Procedure: Add small amount of water to
soap flakes or granulated soap
and whip. Apply to dry paper. Make design
with fingers as done in finger painting.
3. Spatter Painting
Materials: Screen wire stretched and thumb-
tacked over cigar box from which
top and bottom are removed, old toothbrush,
poster paint (older children may use ink),
paper, stencil - leaves, paper shapes, etc.
(Older children may cut own stencils.)
Procedure: Select stencil or leaves to be
used as stencil. An easy way to
cut a line stencil is to fold a straight, narrow
piece of paper several times and cut folded
edge as desired. For example: Fig. 1-3
shows how paper was folded two times to
make 3 thicknesses and then folded in half.
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Activities for youth groups can be a challenge to boys and girls as well as adult leaders.
Divide groups into workable units - twelve to fifteen boys and/or girls make a good size group.
Use the ideas and suggestions in this bulletin, but encourage the boys and girls to use their own
ideas and designs.
As your group advances from activities to creative crafts, consult your county home economics
agent for more detailed information.
PAINTING
Painting is fun if the child is free to express
his own ideas. Never ask children to trace
around a pattern or to copy other work. Help
them to assemble materials. Arrange a suitable
work space and teach them how to protect clothing and work area. A man's old shirt is a good
coverall. The teacher may provide inspiration
by telling a story or talking with the children
about animals, nature, etc. Listening to music
often inspires a child.
1. Finger Painting -
Materials: Finger paint—use this recipe
1 l/2c. laundry starch
1 1/2 c. soap flakes
1 qt. boiling water
1/2 c. talcum (optional)
1 teaspoon glycerine, and
food coloring or poster paint
Mix starch with enough cold water to make
a paste, adding boiling water, stirring until
clear and glossy. Add talcum. Cool mixture
and add soap flakes, stirring until evenly
distributed. Mixture should be thick. Pour
into jars and add food color or paint. Keep
in cool place.
Paper (glossy paper, such as butcher paper
or shelf paper - 18" x 24").
Procedure: Immerse paper in water, then
lay on table or floor. (Surface
may be protected by plastic or oil cloth.)
Apply paint and allow child to spread paint
all over paper with his hands. When finished,
lay painting on newspaper to dry. When dry,
iron painting on wrong side to remove
wrinkles.
2. Soap Painting -
Materials: Soap, glossy paper, food coloring
or poster paint.
Procedure: Add small amount of water to
soap flakes or granulated soap
and whip. Apply to dry paper. Make design
with fingers as done in finger painting.
3. Spatter Painting
Materials: Screen wire stretched and thumb-
tacked over cigar box from which
top and bottom are removed, old toothbrush,
poster paint (older children may use ink),
paper, stencil - leaves, paper shapes, etc.
(Older children may cut own stencils.)
Procedure: Select stencil or leaves to be
used as stencil. An easy way to
cut a line stencil is to fold a straight, narrow
piece of paper several times and cut folded
edge as desired. For example: Fig. 1-3
shows how paper was folded two times to
make 3 thicknesses and then folded in half.
