What Do You Want to Make Today?
All this week I’ve been doing craft challenges that relate in some way to maps. This was in part inspired by a gift from my sister-in-law of several books related to map making as art. These books are a great jumping off point for talking about maps as art with kids and for creating some […]
Today, the last day of spring break, I am finally getting my wish of the girl creating and playing in my office while I work. And naturally, I had no inspiration for today’s craft challenge. Some days are like that. It’s been a very long week with very little alone time, which I really need […]
Our chock-full spring break continued yesterday with a full day trip to a local art museum. It was a beautiful day, and while we don’t actually look at a lot of art while we’re there, there are some sculptures we always see — and I did take her to see Rosie the Riveter even though […]
Here’s another quick and easy creative project you can do in just a few minutes that is surprisingly a lot of fun for how simple it is. Drip painting is exactly what it sounds like: getting paint on a surface by dripping it on randomly. I decided I wanted to do mine on cardboard, but […]
This week I seem to be back in the spirit of relatively fast projects that don’t require a lot of thinking on your part. Maybe it’s the spring weather or the fact that I’m home from a weekend away and just want to have some fun. It doesn’t really matter, but I do love the […]
Once I had all my paint down I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to do next with my slow art project. I started thinking about fabric scraps or more paper to give it a collage look. I went through my fabric drawer, where all the little random bits end up, and found a couple […]
Now it’s time to add more color to our slow art canvas. Because I sometimes combine fast thinking and slow projects, I kind of picked the colors I chose for mine at random. I wanted a neutral — which is brown — and a couple of brighter colors that would look good with the original […]