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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Positive and Negative Space Suns and Moons

It's sunny! It's sunny!  After a week of rainy and grey skies, we are LOVING the warm, sunny weather.  I've seeing so many cool positive and negative space art projects online that I wanted to try making some with my son too.  And then it hit me- why not cut out positive and negative sun and moon faces?   Well, here are the results from our paper experimentations.  (Aren't the faces fun?)

Positive and Negative Space Suns and Moons


positive and negative space suns and moons- fun kids art project


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Let's Make Some Positive and Negative Space Art!

I traced circles onto pieces of colorful paper.  Then, I cut them in half.

positive and negative space suns and moons- fun kids art project

My son and I each got a half.  Then, we fiddled around with our sun faces by cutting out some rays....
positive and negative space suns and moons- fun kids art project

And half a smile, half a nose, and half a pair of sunglasses....
Here's my attempt:

positive and negative space suns and moons- fun kids art project


And here's my son's attempt:
positive and negative space suns and moons- fun kids art project

Then, we glued our pieces onto a piece of contrasting paper with a glue stick.

positive and negative space suns and moons- fun kids art project

That's it!  To make the moon-face, I just didn't cut out rays. 

I hope you have fun trying out this craft with your kids too.   And of course, if you love paper-cutting crafts, here are some of our favorites:

 

More Fun Paper-Cutting Crafts for Kids



Hope you are enjoying warm weather where you are too! 
Happy making, friends!


positive and negative space suns and moons- fun kids art project


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