"It Looked Like Spilt Milk" by Charles G. Shaw.
I have several children's books that I love to read over and over to children. “It Looked Like Spilt Milk” is about how spilt milk can look like so many different things. My favorite project with this book was allowing the children to use a turkey baster to suck up the paint and squeeze it out on a piece of color paper. After they would fold it in half and press down which would allow the paint to move and when they opened it up, I would write, “It Looked Like……(Child’s answer). After reading this book and doing our project, for a week every time we week outside to play the children would look up in the sky and say, “Ms Nina, that cloud looks like a horse.”
I love the show of imagination that children express when creating artwork! "Ink blots", as I like to call the folded paper method, are a great way for children to tell a story and think of new ideas with such a simple project! I like to use the book Little Cloud by Eric Carle to create a similar discussion.
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