Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Butterfly Scripture Canvas
My mom is here visiting from Texas this week. Aside from getting in lots of baby snuggle time, she helped me paint this beautiful canvas for the girls' bedroom. We used this scripture art and this butterfly canvas for inspiration. Psalm 4:8 was one of our memory verses earlier this year. Lucy and Julia both know it by heart and say it at bedtime when they are afraid. I've had a little paper posted in their bedroom with the verse written on it, but wanted a better way to display it. I absolutely love how this turned out!
We used a 22"x28" canvas, acrylic paint, watercolors, watercolor paper, a black paint marker, and a butterfly punch.
Everyone helped paint the canvas. It took a couple of coats (2 bottles of the paint).
We used watercolors to make bright pictures with splotches of color.
My mom wrote the words on the canvas with a pencil first, and then the paint marker. We punched butterflies out of the watercolor paintings and used hot glue to stick them on.
I love, love, love it!
(For more ideas on how to creatively display scripture in your home check out the Write Them on the Doorposts contest.)
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Painting Easter Eggs with Q-tips
Happy Easter!
We dyed and painted Easter eggs last night. Quite a challenge to keep six little hands, nine cups of dye, twenty-four eggs, and eighteen little paint pots from creating a disaster! One way that we kept the mess down was to use Q-tips for paint brushes.
We used the new Q-tips Precision Tips Cotton Swabs with pointy ends. They worked nicely, and I was very happy to not have to wash out paintbrushes countless times.
Some of our artwork:
These Q-tips are a pretty neat must-have craft tool! We will definitely be keeping them on hand. They also work well for putting dabs of glue on things or painting hard to reach spots on crafts. Check out the Q-tips Cotton Swabs Facebook page for news, tips, and a coupon.
In other news, our Easter garden sprouted! We had a bit of drama with it; the original grass seed refused to grow, we had to replant it with wheat berries, then the wheat started to mold, and the dog ate one of the crosses. After all that work, I was quite relieved to see this on Easter morning:
We read through the Easter story together and then moved the rock away from the empty tomb!
more about the butterflies later this week...
I was provided with Q-tips® Precision Tips™ cotton swabs, a $25 American Express gift card and information about the product by Rocket XL. All opinions are 100% my own.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Art Projects
A few fun art projects we've been working on lately:
Charlotte's Web activities:
spinning a web with yarn and popsicle sticks, handprint spiders
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