Baking Soda Paint for Perfect Peaches!

If you are doing peach artwork for a MLB, I highly recommend combining baking soda, vinegar, and food coloring to make Baking Soda Paint!

Since this reaction leaves a fuzzy texture, it is perfect for painting peaches! (I like to use this template. Print it, cut it out, and use that to trace a peach shape onto your watercolor paper. Then cut out the watercolor paper shape.)

This fuzzy peach painting works well for several main lesson blocks.

#1 - Momotaro or Little Peachling
from the International Children's Digital Library

Abstract: An old couple find a large peach in a river. When they cut it open, a child emerges. They name him Momotaro, or Little Peachling. The child grows up and decides to set off on an exciting adventure.

Three Perfect Peaches: A French Folktale is a wonderful story for the Waldorf grade 1 Quality of Numbers block (4 - the four directions N/E/S/W) or grade 2 World Folktales. The Japanese story Momotaro is also great for the grade 2 World Folktales block.

Last December the children made fuzzy peach artwork for "August" in our homemade calendar project for the grade 3 Clocks & Calendars block.

And I recently discovered that there's also a wonderful peach story in Chinese Mythology! The Monkey King is a long legend that ties in perfectly with a study of Buddhism in the grade 8 World Religions block.

Three Perfect Peaches: A French Folktale
retold by Cynthia DeFelice, et al.

Dragons, Gods & Spirits from Chinese Mythology (World Mythology Series)
by Tao Tao Liu Sanders

Of course, now that I'm in Summer Camp mode, I'm trying to find an activity where Baking Soda Paint would be a good fit. Maybe Plant ID? Oh! Cattails!!!

https://morningchores.com/uses-for-cattails/

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