I was reminded this week of the mini ART CAMP that I did this summer for my kids and a few friends. Liv and I painted the macaroni the night before and and all the kids made easy macaroni necklaces. To paint big batches of macaroni quickly you can just squeeze some paint into a zip lock bag and then shake pasta around in it. Really simple and clean method. Then we put it all out to dry. We also painted cardboard stars! I didn’t end up taking very many pictures from that day, but here are just a few. Also, I recently discovered LA ART Studios —- awesome inspiration for fun art projects for kids. Planning on making their recycled cardboard snowflakes with Liv and Cohen sometime this next month!
Cardboard Castle
Liv and I recently made a cardboard castle and had so much fun. I got the idea from The Artful Parent. They have a fantastic newsletter and always send out ideas that I feel like we can do with basic supplies (even better we could recycle our cardboard boxes and toilet paper rolls for this project). I bought a pack of Kwik Sticks (tempera paint in a stick form-dries almost instantly), but unfortunately when I spray painted the cardboard the kwik sticks wiped off (?) We ended up using them on some of the side pillars, but then grabbing our basic acrylics to paint the rest. The kids have loved playing with it!!
Some of our favorite things
Slick Stix !! These are awesome—they glide really easily for little kids and the colors are bold. Fun to draw on black paper, too. We like to use the slick sticks & Crayola oil pastels on top of watercolors (pictured above). Liv, always picking the best color combos.
Drawing with Ed Emberely
Liv and I have done a bunch of different art projects this past spring that I wanted to share. Thankfully, she likes doing art together (making my childhood dreams of doing art with my kids come true!) :)
One of our favorite artists and teachers is Ed Emberely. I loved all his illustration work even before I had kids and now we really enjoy checking his children’s books out at the library. While it’s nice to have a hard copy and turn the pages of a book all of his drawing pages are ONLINE too, which is awesome to find pictures quickly of animals or objects you want to draw.
