May 15th was the feast of Our Lady of Fatima this year and it fell on a preschool day for us. So I read the children the story of what happened in Fatima almost 100 years ago. We recreated the miracle of the sun with our art project you can see below:
First we painted a paper plate yellow to make the sun.
After it dried I cut around the edges to make points for a bright shining sun.
We wanted to recreate how the sun turned different colors during the miracle of the sun. We covered a pre-cut circle of cardboard with foil. Then the children painted the foil with a mixture of half glue and half water. Once the foil was covered, they place cut pieces of colored tissue paper all over the circle, painting over the tissue with the glue mixture to make it stick.
The finished product was a beautiful, shiny circle of color! The kids really enjoyed picking out colors and painting over them.
Once the two pieces were held together with the brad (not too tight), the colorful circle could spin and spin, as the colorful sun moved around the sky during the miracle of the sun.
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