Learning to water-color is really more difficult than one might think. Load color, paint, wash, dry, repeat. It's a repetitive process, that if not followed, will result in a big, brown mess. Unless you are looking for the brown mess, you really have to pay attention to what you are doing, what step you are on, and what step comes next. This is not always an easy task for an adult, much less a three year old, but I think the children did a pretty good job! Look at their concentration faces!
Another unfamiliar, but important skill, is knowing how to tear paper. You might think this would be a very easy task, but you would be wrong. Children can definitely rip things up and make a mess; but are they ripping (we call it tearing) properly? Most likely, no. Children tend to fist grab each side of a piece of paper and PULL. Sometimes, no matter how hard they pull, nothing happens. That is because they are not TEARING.
Tearing requires a child to use a pincer grip and then to move their hands in opposites directions. When done properly, the paper they are working with, easily comes apart into two pieces. Much easier said than done! TEAR, don't PULL, was the mantra of the day.
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