Alligator Painting

I loved the idea of this craft as soon as I saw it. I was looking for coloring pages and found a great picture of an alligator.

I was looking at the picture and noticed the detail for the hard back scales and thought how fun would it be to do a textured painting for alligators?

I found a paint set at Wal-Mart at the beginning of summer for only $10. Inside were many different paint rollers, shaped sponges, and paint trays. It was perfect. The rollers varied in texture too! Some were smooth others were squared or zig-zag. I knew the rollers would be perfect for this activity!

The Dragons have also been itching to paint with these materials and were tickled to see the tools we were using for this weeks art.

It took a couple tries before The Dragons got the hang of rolling the roller in the paint instead of dipping it.

As the boys painted I set out 1 of our alligator props for a visual of the scales.

Then we hung the alligators on the art wall

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