Nursery Rhyme Bubble Painting!

BUBBLE PAINTING - The Cow Jumped Over the Moon...

So today we were talking about Nursery Rhymes in preschool (we are also talking about the letter R so "r"hyming is a great skill to work on).  We read lots of different nursery rhymes and acted them out too.

We chose "Hey Diddle, Diddle" to use for our art project - bubble painting - because I love how the pattern made by the bubbles looks like the surface of the moon.

Here is the rhyme :  Hey Diddle Diddle, the cat and the fiddle

                               The cow jumped over the moon,

                               The little dog laughed to see such sport and

                               The dish ran away with the spoon.

Here is the art :

I used yellow and black paint for the moon, and brown for the cow.  Mix same amount of paint and dish soap (start with 2 tablespoons) and add a little water.  Mix it together, put a straw in and have the children blow until bubbles form all the way over the top of the bowl.

 

Once the bubbles are overflowing, the child takes the paper and places it face down on the bubbles.  The bubbles pop and leave a design on the paper!  Don't let the paper push down into the bowl or it will get soaked, just leave it on top and the design will be great.

 I think this really looks like a moon!  And we did it again with yellow on top of the black to make the moon glow.

For the cow I had a preprinted paper with a cow outline on it.  We blew brown bubbles and put the cow paper face down on it.

 

The papers dried quickly, I cut them out and the kids used glue sticks to put on a black paper.  They needed to know the difference between under, over, beside, to know where to place the cow in relation to the moon. 

They also wanted to add stars so we used a star stamp to put stars around in the sky.  

The finished product looked cute with  the Cow Jumping Over the moon and the neat patterns made by the bubble paint!