Bright flowers on a snowy day

I thought I would post this project I did a few years ago to brighten up a really snowy day... And week here in NJ!  It has been snowing quite a bit; we had a half day, and a snow day this week, and it snowed again yesterday! 

For this project the kids first started by making a pretty piece of painted paper.  They did a wet on wet painting and sprinkled it with salt.  We let them dry and they cut out a vase shape.  They divided their paper and had to create a pattern on the bottom half for the "tablecloth"they glued on their vase, few flowers and painted them with watercolor and hen used one color paint for the background.  I hung these up for our yearly art show and hey really looked awesome.