Educating Risa

I saw the kernel of this idea here, and thought this would be a fun activity for us with a few adaptations. This morning we set up the table with watercolour paint, brushes, index cards, a white crayon and a pen. For Daegan, I wrote the answer to a math fact on one side of the card in white crayon (hence “invisible”), and the question on the other side in pen. Daegan answered the question and then flipped the card and coloured it in watercolour paint to check his answer:

 

For Gareth, I wrote colour words on one side in white crayon, and then again on the back in pen. I had him read (or sound out) the colour word, and then flip the card over and use the correct watercolour to make his card:

After a while, Gareth also asked for some number cards, so I made him the following:

Daegan asked me for some harder questions, and suggested the following:

For Gareth I also did shape words:

and told him they were shape words. With that clue, he guessed that the one starting with a “T” was triangle. I told him to colour and check for himself:

The last thing I tried was an opposite pair, ‘happy’ and ‘sad’. I started with ‘sad’ as I knew Gareth could sound out that word to read it, and then he flipped and coloured to reveal. Ditto for ‘happy’:

 

And, of course, this activity would not be complete without the boys creating their own wax-resist, watercolour art. Any guesses as to what they drew?

Have fun with this idea at home, and if you think for some other neat uses for this technique, please leave me a comment.