watercolors

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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Sunset Skyline Art Project

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Even with all the free art time the girls engage in, they still ask to do projects. I have tons of fun art projects bookmarked, so we’ve decided to set aside Friday mornings for art project time. Last week, the girls chose to do the Sunset Cityscape project from Art Projects for Kids. Supplies: watercolor [...]

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Sweet Scarecrow

Delaney and I spent some time doing an art project together, just the two of us.  She loves doing free art exploration, but had been asking to do a “project” for a couple days.  I showed her a couple of the projects geared toward Kindergartners and First Graders at Deep Space Sparkle (an awesome kids’ [...]

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Something fishy…

Happy Monday! Hope all the dads and grandpas had a lovely Father’s Day yesterday. The girls helped me plan a backyard camp-out dinner and dessert. The menu was turkey hot dogs and bratwurst, watermelon, potato chips, and lemonade. For dessert, we made S’more Cookie Bars – YUM! (I got the recipe from the Hershey website.) [...]

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Color Diffusing Flowers

We have a beautiful new decoration hanging in our playroom: Natalie and I made this using Color Diffusing Flower Shapes, watercolors, pastels, and plain water in droppers and spray bottles. The color diffusing paper is similar to working with coffee filters, but a bit thicker and sturdier. For some of the flowers we did a [...]

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