Glittery Cotton Ball Collage
My very active almost 3-year old hopped off her bike just long enough to work on a collage. The weather has been so nice, and I can’t really blame her. Materials Cardstock: 8.5 x 11, from a fat ream I…
Category Painting
Rolled Wooden Eggs
This is part of a collaboration with my friend Melissa’s blog, The Chocolate Muffin Tree. Scroll to the bottom for a link to her Two for One: Rolled Eggs. Her colors are amazing! We started with some wooden eggs. Aren’t they pretty? What…
Rolled Easter Egg Painting
Before we got to rolling, N wanted to dip half-eggs in the paint… Then she took a closed egg, rolled it in red and white paint (because her favorite color is pink, and she’s proud of her color-mixing knowledge!)… A…
Rubber Band Painting
One of the almost-weekly segments of this site is called Creative Experiments, and last week’s experiment was to create something with Rubber Bands. Danielle and her daughter Simone were the first to participate with their Elastic Project, which you can view…
Coffee Filter Flowers
We recently started using a Chemex coffee pot and we had a stack of old filters collecting dust, waiting to be repurposed into watercolor coffee filter flowers! I mixed a little water to liquid watercolors, and added droppers. You could…
Funnel Painting
To make this happen, we used: A curtain rod String Funnel Large sheets of paper Paint Tape Chairs to suspend the swinging funnel My daughter helped me tape a big sheet of paper to the floor. We noticed that it…