To decorate the halls for the Holiday Bazaar, each class is asked to create a holiday themed painting. My students wondered when they would get to use the white crayon that is in their tin this year. When I visited the Christchurch Rudolf Steiner School this summer (ehmmm winter), the 3rd graders had created wonderful Noah's Ark themed paintings using the crayon resist method. That's what came to mind when I tried to find something to do with that white crayon. My students drew a white dove onto white paper - not an easy task. They added a lil' olive branch in its mouth. They then wrote words like love, joy, happiness, friendship, peace... in red underneath the dove & finally painted blue over it & - as if by magic - the dove appeared.
