The children found feathers, paint, and paper set out on the table as part of our ongoing turkey tangent. As the children began to paint, we quickly found out which end  of the feather would be more interesting to paint with…
We started out by painting with the stick end of the feather. Â A couple of my students gave it try and exclaimed, “Mrs. Stewart – this is not working!” …
I gave it a try too and sure enough, even though I had paint on the stick end of the feather – it definitely wasn’t leaving much paint on the paper. Â It would kind of scratch a little paint on the paper but it wasn’t all that fun for me either…
So we switched the feathers out for new feathers and this time we put the feathered end of the feathers into the paint…
Yep, painting with the feathered end did the trick. My students came back and tried this process again and decided it was much more interesting to paint with the feathered end of a feather than the stick end of a feather!