Watercolors and Notebooks

This week we did some watercolor art with 25 of the students at CESAH! The kids got to paint whatever they wanted and once they dry we will fold them and decorate them with each student's name to turn them into notebooks. This was such a fun and easy project to do with the kids, and something they really enjoyed doing. I wanted to choose a project with a lot of freedom to allow the kids to create whatever they wanted, and to not feel pressure to make things one way or another. It was so fun to see everyone's finished watercolors, they were all so beautiful and different. For most of the kids it was their first time using watercolors so we got to discuss and try out how more or less water can make the colors darker and lighter. Rea once saw me coloring in one of my adult coloring books and asked me if she could make copies for the kids at the school to color. She said something that really stuck with me,

“If they have the chance to create with their imagination without anyone telling them what to do, they can imagine any future different from what they see or have been told."

- Rea Dol