Little kids make a lot of art. Which is great. It’s fun to see them try out new things, and to go from random scribbles to lines (my girl loves lines) and circles and, eventually, to drawings and paintings that look like things we can recognize. But we obviously can’t keep all of it. That […]
Experiments in Liquid Watercolors
As I mentioned yesterday, as much as the Bit loves every kind of paint, she hasn’t quite gotten the concept of using cake watercolors. She usually plays with the water more than the paint, and when she does get paint on her brush she then dips it in the water instead of putting it on […]
A Day of Art
The other day when the Bit was home sick, I encouraged her to do lots of different kinds of art. It didn’t take much encouragement, because she loves to play with markers, paint and stickers. But I thought it would be interesting to document all the different things we did, and I share it in […]
Found it on Pinterest: Recycled Alphabet Crayons
My daughter went through a phase when she was first using crayons when she loved to break them but then wouldn’t use them after they were broken. So we have quite a collection of crayon pieces just sitting around. Pinterest has a trove of ideas for melting down and recycling crayons. The first crayon craft […]
Creating with Our Kids
My daughter has access to her crayons and colored pencils (on both floors of our house) all the time, but the paints, markers and stamps I keep in a box in the kitchen for painting time, which seems to be happening lately on Sunday nights, when my sweetie is out of the house and it’s […]