Mystery crayon rubbings

As a child I loved doing crayon rubbings. They seemed a bit magical to me. I loved seeing what money looked like, the contrast of the rubbings exposed the design for me. We did some fossil rubbings recently at the museum and then the Artful Parent gave me this idea...

I set a space with 2 areas of odd items blue tacked into position, one for B

and one for Little Miss.

Then I secured a piece of butchers paper over the top and put a few crayons on top.

When B came home from school I told them both I had set up something for them at their desks.
They rushed downstairs in excitement and at first just saw the paper. B actually said in a sarcastic voice, "Oh its just drawing paper." He is getting harder to please as he gets older and wiser. But I felt the paper and said, "I think there is something underneath." Of course then they tried to tear the paper off, so I ended up demonstrating what to do.

They had to be careful as the butcher's paper was too thin and ripped easily and my choice of objects should have been flatter.

Guessing the objects as they rubbed was an interesting game.

But they were really desperate to see what was underneath so in the end had to rip the paper off like it was a present.















  



Even though I didn't think this activity went really well, wrong paper and impatient kids, once they saw the arrangement of objects they immediately asked for me to set them up another one.


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