Here’s a fun activity that I did last Easter with Ashlyn. I cut some egg shapes out of file folders and wrapped them in aluminium foil. Then the girls painted them with acrylic paint. I also let them use regular paint which worked fine but didn’t dry as nicely. While the paint is still wet, use the [...]
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Paint Splattering
March 12, 2009 – 7:35 am
If your kids are like mine, they love to play with paint. Usually that’s not a problem, but what about times when getting messy just isn’t an option. How about virtual paint splattering? Just move the mouse around the screen to splatter the paint. The slower you move the more paint gets applied. If you [...]
Kid Friendly Friday
February 26, 2009 – 8:51 pm
This morning before we headed out to eat lunch with Chris, my girls were looking for something to do. I remembered I saw this painting idea on a website (don’t remember which one) where you paint using a golf ball and a shoe box. They had so much fun doing this and it was so [...]
Toilet Paper Fun
May 23, 2008 – 9:20 am
Yesterday was a long day. Both my girls are still coughing, yes I know, it’s been like 2 weeks. So when I need to kill some time I go to the art supply closet. I let them each pick a color paint and then I gave them a toilet paper roll. Ashlyn’s job was to [...]
Painting with a Twist
March 29, 2008 – 3:12 pm
Ashlyn-4 was getting kind of bored with “regular” painting so the other day we tried something a little different. We painted a beautiful picture using straws. It was so much fun! I got 3 different straws and put them in the color paint she wanted. Then she blew through the straw and blew the paint [...]