Some Fun with Watercolor Pencils

My great-grandkids were here last weekend so we had some

fun using the Watercolor Pencils from MAPED.

                           When I was sent these pencils to review I knew 

                                           my great-granddaughter would love them.  

                         She loves to paint but we all know how messy that can 

                                      get with a 6-year-old, so I thought

these pencils would satisfy her love of painting.

I printed up some images on some mixed-media paper

and had them all ready for them.

Here she is all ready to dig in and color.  I didn't really tell her what

the pencils did just that I had a surprise for her.  

So I had her color in some of the pumpkin using one of the pencils.

After she had a bit colored I gave her a water brush and told her

to go over where she colored.   

I so wish I would have videoed her when she first so what

happened when she added the water, she was so amazed and excited.

Then, of course, she had to sharpen her pencils. 

She was pretty impressed that it caught the shavings and of course

she loved the pink & purple color.

And her is she with her finished artwork.

Now the lil guy had been watching his big sister all along so he

had to have his try at those amazing pencils. 

His favorite color is orange so he had to color his little 

monster picture orange.

"OK, Nana now I am ready for the water"

And just like big sister her had to try out that pencil sharpener.

Even with his little hand he could hold this sharpener. 

Aren't they just the cutest little artists.  All in all, it was a fun time for all

of us, they got to paint and Nana did not have to worry about water getting

spilled all over or paints getting tipped over. 

#mapedhelix 

Water-coloring with Pencils

Hi, I am back to share another card with you today, another

Christmas card.  Trying to get some stash saved up.

I was sent some products to review from a company called

MAPED that has a lot of crafts and school products.

I have a 6-year-old great-granddaughter that loves to

draw, color and most of all paint.  Well we all know that

painting with a 6-year-old can be pretty messy, so I thought

using watercolor pencils with give her the feeling of painting but without

all the mess.

They are called Aqua Color'Peps 

I thought I would try them out coloring a stamped image before

I had a chance to color/paint with her, so here is what I made.

It was pretty easy to do, just colored in a bit and then used a water brush to                                                                spread the color.  

I did use some glitter pens to add some accents to it.  I matted the

pieces of paper with gold paper.  I stamped on a small tag using

a Hero Arts stamp then tied it on with some twine that has gold thread in it.

Back to those pencils, one thing I really liked about them is they have

slightly flat sides which means they will not roll off your workspace. 

The flat is not so much that you have problems sharpening them.  I also

got some pencils sharpeners to review.  I really loved the one

I got that has an eraser on one side of it, so convenient and the

eraser works great. 

I received a variety of pencil sharpeners and am anxious to try them

out with my PrismaColor pencils, we all know they can be
difficult to sharpen.

#maped