We had so much fun with the mushroom shadow box! The kids love to paint…so painting the mushroom, then the cactus and pot made them very happy. I love teaching the kids little facts about the animals when we do a project- God is the most amazing Creator. So fun to share facts and try…
Category: art class
2 things: video of science center in art room 🦋🌿and the boys leave
Press play for video Wil left last week to go to a conference before school started, and I teared up then. I’m glad we get to text and chat on the phone every once in awhile. Wes left today and there were more tears! Me (not him! ;)) I think it’s especially emotional because he’s…
December Art Class ☃️❄️🌲Shaving Cream Snowman Project (and other fun stuff!)
We were so inspired by Lois Ehlert’s fabulously creative book, Snowballs…and we made snowmen of our own: Puffy snowmen!! mix equal parts shaving cream and white glue, paint the puff onto the paper and add buttons, hat, scarf, cloves for mouth, tiny twigs (or rosemary) for arms. So fun! It dries and stays puffy! I…
Marbled Paper and Marbled Christmas Ornaments ((my new favorite art form!!))
Paper Marbling!!! My new favorite art form. I could do this all day, it’s pure magic. I read about these marbling paints (vivid color marbling paints, Amazon) they are amazing!! Truly vivid; they float perfectly on top of the water. One tip I read saves the day – use a pin to poke tiny hole…
Bicycle Color Wheel Art Project 🌈🎨🚲
I love how this project came together! I found this step by step bike drawing guide here and thought it would be neat to combine drawing a bike and painting the color wheel. One thing that helped the proportions of the bicycles was that I had them trace a roll of masking tape for the…
🎃🍂The Great Pumpkin Post! 🎃
There’s nothing cuter than having your kids paint a pumpkin- at any age! One of my kids painted this mini pumpkin years ago, and it’s still one of my favorite photos. Then…then! There was the year we did the pour paint method…did these pumpkins turn out gorgeous, or what?! This is the book I read…
Mushrooms! How these beautiful little fungi inspired us around here 🍄🌿
God’s artistry astounds me! It all started in the middle of the summer when I stumbled upon a few mushrooms in the yard! All of these photos were taken by our house in the last 3-4 months. Notice the colors, textures, and varieties! It’s amazing how they grow and change…I watched these white mushrooms for…
Fantastic Forest Floor Art Project 🍄🌿🍂
Let’s make a mushroom collage together! Inspired by the mushrooms in my backyard…and this photo, in which I had to get real close to the ground and stepped on an ant hill! (Totally worth the ant bites!) Step one, use a large pompom or sponge to sponge paint moss and a green foliage background. I…
🪴Beads, Dragon Fruit, + Stickers🌿
Have you ever cut open a dragon fruit? look at that beauty! Pink and green on the outside… Gorgeous white with black on the inside. We took a few minutes in art class to look at it and draw what we saw. I want to develop more intensive projects that use these color combinations. God,…
2013 art scene at our house
Looking back at old photos…2013 was a big year for art. It was fun to decorate our homeschool classroom (the bonus room upstairs) There were lots of cakes; rainbow for Skye, angry birds for Wil, painting cakes, and a terrarium for Wes. That was the year Wes planted terrariums for his science project and someone…
sara’s art house 