Paint with tea bags

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Happy Earth Day! Whilst racking my brains for recycled crafts (which we love), it occurred to me that I was due to use up my various tea bags I had been saving for a few days - you know, for no particular reason!! So here's a great way to "mark" the occasion- painting with used tea bags! Here are the teas I used: I placed each bag in a bowl and added some fresh boiling water - not too much as I wanted the colour to be as concentrated as possible. Using watercolour paper, I made a colour…

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Preschool Art with Tea Bags - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

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This is week five of the tea bag art challenge. "Beach Scene"on tea bag mounted on watercolor paper. This small beauty measures 3 1/2 x 5 after mounting to the paper. I first used clear gesso to attach the tea bag paper to the watercolor paper. Painted with the Mungyo watercolor pan paints, used pencil…

Early this year, I started a visual diary called "363 Days of Tea". My goal was two-fold: to push my creative practice and to share it on social media, hoping to spark a different kind of inspiration. The used tea bag is not very attractive.