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What you will need:

image: Paint  image: Paper  image: Pencil  image: Scissors

Blotterflies

Blotterflies

This can be done with many colours, but if you use only two you can show how two colours can make a third colour e.g. red and yellow make orange

Colour mixing and pattern making

Blotterflies 1

Put blobs of colours on one side of a piece of paper that has been folded in half.

Blotterflies 2

Fold the paper and push the paint around with your finger

Blotterflies 3

Peel the paper apart and leave to dry

Blotterflies 4

When dry, fold the paper back again and draw half a shape of a bug, butterfly etc and cut

Same Difference in Palestine

Same Difference in Palestine
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