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Scratch The Picture - Activity Instructions

Let’s have fun scratching out a colourful picture and uncovering a bright world underneath! This easy activity will be sure to amaze you if you are just learning to use your crayons and make your mark on the world. You can use simple ingredients found in your house to complete this activity.

Safety advice: The last step requires an object to scratch out the picture; the example has used metal skewers but you could also use the wrong end of the spoon to avoid poking any eyes out! Using non-toxic water-based paint is safer to use than other more heavy duty kinds of paints.

Part A: Prepare Your Activity

Step 1.

Get some paper and colour it in with oil pastels. Try to make sure you cover the whole piece of paper with colour and use lots of different colours all over the paper!

Step 2.

Prepare your painting area. Ask your parent/caregiver to help you with this. Put some old newspaper or other old spare paper underneath your activity. Get a water cup and a palette for your paint and paintbrush. You can use an old container as shown:

Step 3.

Put the paint onto the palette and dip your paintbrush into the paint. Paint over your paper until it is completely covered. Leave this to dry.

Step 4.

Clean up your paint and wash out your brush! Preparation is complete and now we wait for the paint to dry!

Part B: Scratching Time!

Step 1.

When the paint is dry, get a metal skewer or spoon to scratch out letters, words, images. Note that you can use many different objects from the kitchen drawer to do the scratching. Ask your parent/caregiver to help you find different things to experiment with!

Step 2.

Scratch out your design. You could write some letters or draw some shapes or even your favourite animals!

Taking It Further

Play games like noughts and crosses with your friends or draw your favourite scene from a book!

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