One day last week Nixie woke up wanting to learn all about Arctic wolves (pretty great timing too since the full moon this month is called the Wolf Moon) so after we had read through books and searched the internet for information and watched some videos and an amazing documentary by the BBC which we already happened to have called The Snow Wolf Family and Me it was time to do something creative. I searched online for ideas and decided to make a wolf silhouette glued onto some marbled paper. (We also made an arctic Wolf family out of Origami)

Materials Needed:

  • Baking tray
  • Water colour paper
  • Liquid Water colour paints (We didn't have any so we just used food colouring but we only had the gel kind (except for one liquid yellow) which didn't work as well as I hoped and will definitely be doing this again with the paints instead.
  • A printed out wolf silhouette to cut
  • Shaving cream
  • Black cardstock

Instructions:

First cut out your silhouette 

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Then cover your baking tray with shaving cream. Add several drops of food colouring or paint. Swirl it around with your chopstick. Nixie & Forrest both loved doing this.

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Now press your paper down on top of it all, gently moving it around a little. Scrape off shaving cream and voila! Your marbled paper for the sky is finished.

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I let them play with the shaving cream so that I could do the dishes and a load of laundry.

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(Once I finished the dishes and finished giving them a bath) Cut out a piece of black card stock to glue onto the bottom of the marbled paper to be the ground. Glue it on and then glue on the wolf and you are finished!

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