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Lemon Art Projects

Lemon Juice Watercolors

There are not many lemon-themed art projects out there, aside from actually drawing pictures of lemons! But I found one I like a lot! 

You will need: Watercolor paints

                        Watercolor paper (Do not use regular thin paper for this particular project... it will rip!) 

                        Paint brushes (you might want to get larger ones than the kind that come in kids' watercolor sets. I learned this because it took my kids fifty million years to paint with the small brushes, and some of them ran out of time or got bored before they were finished!)

                       Eyedroppers

                       Lemon juice

                       Cups

First, have kids paint their watercolor paper. Ask them to pain the whole paper, and try not to leave any white spots! 

Once this task is finished, you can either let the paintings dry, or blot them with paper towels to get them as dry as possible or at least remove all the extra water that tends to accumulate when little kids use water colors. 

Next, give each child a cup with a little bit of lemon juice in it, and an eyedropper. Kids can suck the lemon juice up, and drop it onto their painting. They might like to pick up their painting with both hands and move it around to let the lemon juice roll around on their paper. 

Let the paintings dry completely. As the lemon juice dries, it will leave faded lines and spots where it dripped. 

At this point, you can either leave the paintings as is, or give the kids black markers to trace around the faded areas and try to make pictures out of them. 

I sent my kids' paintings home with them and forgot to take pictures, but I can show you an example from the website where I originally found the idea!