25 posts tagged “art”
This is a project we used to do when i was a preschool teacher. You cut orange construction paper into pumpkin shapes and glue on a green steam. Then you and your child cut out fun shapes in yellow construction paper. Once your done cutting give your little one a glue stick and some black and yellow crayons and let them have fun "carving" or glueing their Jack O Lanterns. You can also put out some glitter to make them sparkle.
Sienna loved it and wanted to put them up right away to help decorate our house for Halloween. I have a feeling we will be making more of these fun pumpkins before Halloween. :) Try this easy, fun and cheap Halloween Project and let me know how you liked it!
A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart. ~Author Unknown
Love you both so much!
Today i just sat and watched Sienna finger paint. Mixing colors and loving the feel of the wet paint on her hands. She loved every second. It was truly a blessing to watch and learn. In life we adults get so wraped up in finishing things quickly and getting it over with so we can move on to the next task. That we just don't stop and enjoy what we are doing. I love learning life lessons from my three year old daughter. :)
So learn something new today, watch your kids while they play. You never know what lessons they might teach you.
Today I got up and was all dressed and ready to get Sienna up and ready for preschool when i realized there was no school today. Oh dear. I had completely forgotten, and Sienna loves school and looks forward to going once a week. The first thing she asked this morning was, "I wonder what we will do in class today." She was super sad when i told her there would be no school today. So i decided to make the day fun to make up for not having school.
Praise God for birthday presents. Sienna received a ton of art supplies from Veronique and the boys and a huge play dough kit from Grandma Lorie. So we spent our day finger painting and playing with play dough. She loved making art and then telling me where to hang it in the house. She cracks me up. Also she spent over an hour just cutting and rolling play dough. She told me she was baking, but said i wasn't aloud to know what she was baking. It was going to be a surprise.
After dinner Sienna and i had fun face painting. Well it started out with her wanting to look like a bunny. Then it turned into her wanting to paint my face! hehe :) She loved getting to draw on my face and we giggled the whole time. I just loved all the fun things we did today and so enjoyed Mommy and daughter time as well. In the end i think she had just as much fun at home as she would have at school. However I know she will love going to school next Monday.
So make sure you set aside time to PLAY. Because kids grow up way to fast and before you know it, they won't want to play anymore. Cherish your little ones everyday!
Sienna and I spent the entire day doing art. We went through my craft stuff and pulled out all kinds of fun things. We painted, made collages and experimented with wet painted paper and folding it and making imprints. Sienna loved it. And now our kitchen is covered with her creations. Plus Sienna made a very special work of art for her daddy's office. She was so proud to show him all the work she had done and to give him his gift.
It was a great time spent together and it didn't cost me anything. So get out your aprons and paints and let the kids go at it. They will have fun and learn at the same time! What idea's do you have for fun activities for kids that are free or low cost?
Well tonight while drawing with chalk on our patio with Sienna i was able to take this sweet photo. I love children's feet and i thought it was so cute how she had chalk all over them. Such a fun photo of my sweet girls feet, well i think they are cute feet. It's been a while since i posted a photo of the day. However now that I have more time of my own, i will be sure to capture some more moments and post them here for you.
Tonight we had a FULL house for our yearly tie dye party. We had kids from youth group, along with friends from camp, and two visitors from North Carolina. We had a great bunch of people. Sherry made burritos for all of us and we enjoyed an amazing meal together, then the tie dying started. Everyone brought shirts and other white clothed items and we had a ball make our creations. I love tie dyeing and think it's such a fun thing to do together with a group of people. After everyone had finished their art project we enjoyed some cupcakes, shocker i know! :)
Well I had a full and crazy weekend, now I am off to bed to prepare for what the Lord has in store for me this week. Nighty Night friends, hope you had a great weekend!
I have always enjoyed experiencing myself with art. When I was little my sisters and I would color and paint and make many master pieces. My little sister Cameo is an amazing artist and just graduated from college with an art degree. Even as an adult i love to dabble in art. I have painted murals in my nephews bedroom along with a mural in a prayer room at my old church. Photography is another art form i enjoy. I really think weather you have "talent" or not art is just a wonderful way to express your feelings and create something.
Well my daughter Sienna loves to draw, paint and even sculpt. She is my little artist and we so enjoy spending hours at the kitchen table painting together. Yesterday Sienna asked me if we could paint. We have been so busy and I have been so sick that we haven't had time to sit down and make art. So i got out a ton of paints, some buttons and glitter. I love glitter, it just makes everything prettier. hehe :) Sienna and I sat at the table for a few hours just creating and enjoying some mommy daughter time. It is these moments i treasure. She has grown so much and I am in awe of the little girl she is today. I remember finger painting with her just over a year ago, and now she paints with a paint brush using the proper grip. We sit and we talk and she tells me her idea's and what she wants her painting to look like. I just can't believe she is so big and so grown up. Time flies when it comes to children, but my goal is to be active in her life and not miss it. I never want to look back and her childhood and wish we had done more. So if you have children in your life, take the time to stop what you are doing and spend time with them. I promise you, you will never regret time that you invested in a child.
So get out there and make a mess with your kids, they will love it and so will you!
I really wanted to do something special for my mom and Daniel's mom. They both do so much for us, I wanted to bless them. So I got this idea to paint flower pots for them and plant some pretty plants in them. Both of our mom's love plants and have beautiful gardens. So Sienna, Daniel and I headed up to Lowes and we let Sienna pick out the flowers, which by the way she wanted ALL the flowers in the garden section. Once home we spent the late afternoon outside painting. Sienna and I love to get messy and this was a fun mommy daughter project. After artfully painting the pots I painted Sienna's hand and made prints all the way around the pots. Once they were dry we planted our beautiful flowers in our wonderful decorated pots. This project didn't cost much and was well worth the time. I was recommend this project to anyone. It was a great way to spend time with my daughter, plus we ended up with two wonderful gifts. It was a gift to me just to spend the time with Sienna creating something special.
I have been slacking on posting "Photo of the Day". But I just loved this photo i took while out with my nieces yesterday. I love bright colors and photographing things that you wouldn't topically think to photograph. To anyone else these are just bottles of paint, and not very nice looking ones at that. But I saw stunning colors and the fun those paints have brought to many children's days. I love taking something ordinary and making it look extraordinary.
Make sure you take some time today to notice beauty in the smallest of places.
