Sunsets

Notice how the sky turns the most beautiful shades of red, yellow and purple as the sun sinks down behind the clouds. As your child looks at the sunset, point out how everything in front of the bright sun looks black. Objects become ‘silhouetted’ against the bright red, pink and orange.

Let your child create his own sunsets by painting water onto drawing paper until it is quite wet and then putting on blobs of bright red, orange and purple paint, allowing the colors to mix freely. Another way to create the same effect is to glue torn strips of tissue paper, in appropriate colors, over each other in a random pattern. When the ‘sunsets’ are dry, add some silhouetted objects to the pictures, using thick black felt-tip pen, or by sticking on black paper shapes.