painting

Love Bug Pet Rocks

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Painting rocks is fun, and turning painted rocks into cute critters is even more fun! Why not make a bunch of love bug pet rocks with your kids? Here’s the simple how-to: • Head outside and find a perfect rock. • Paint your rock and let it dry. We use acrylic paints for the best [...]

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Stained Glass Paintings

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I’ve had make colored glue on my art to-do list for a while. During one of our recent history readings (we’re learning about the Middle Ages), we learned a bit about how stained glass is made. Perfect time for a stained glass art project! We used a stained glass pattern of a castle, traced onto [...]

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Snow Globe Place Cards

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My girls love setting a fancy table any time of year. Holiday get-togethers are a perfect time to create some extra-special place cards, like our cute snow globe place cards! We’re planning to use these for our winter solstice candlelight dinner, and take them to my parents’ house for Christmas Day. I’m sharing the how-to [...]

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Christmas Card 2010

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The girls created this beautiful winter scene collage for our Christmas card this year. I decided to branch out from our usual photo card, and I’m so glad we did. I just love how it turned out and now I have a nice original piece of artwork to frame and bring out each winter, as [...]

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Self-Serve Painting

When the girls ask to paint, I try to always say yes. I don’t always have the easel set-up, but they are usually just as happy to paint at the kitchen table. Sometimes they want watercolors, but often they want “real paint,” as Delaney calls it. We use Colorations brand washable tempera paints or BioColor [...]

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Simple Abstract Painted Canvas

An extra canvas + masking tape + acrylic craft paints = fun new rainbow art for Delaney’s room! Delaney said the best part of this project is peeling off the tape after the paint is dry. My favorite part is seeing her brushstrokes in each little space. This particular canvas has exposed staples on the [...]

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Groovy Gobblers

Remember all those painting tools we played with yesterday?  Now we have turkeys!  The girls basically did these themselves – I did cut out paper turkey bodies and felt beaks and waddles at their request.  Here’s their instructions, more or less…. First step – cut up all your artwork into small pieces and throw them [...]

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