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Art Journaling with my Family

Thursday, August 15, 2013

We went to Saugatuck, Michigan last week (bet you didn't know that, because I pre-scheduled blog posts for that time. You really should be careful what information you give out when you are leaving town. You don't want to come back to a ransacked house!) Anyways, we were gone for about 5 days and went to the Indiana Dunes and stayed in a cabin in Saugatuck. We went with my brothers, nieces/nephews and my parents.

We had a blast riding the dune buggy rides, playing at the beach and going shopping in the cute shops.

One afternoon, I brought out my art journaling supplies for my daughter and niece to play with.

Some of the supplies we used were:

markers
pens
stickers
Hello Kitty stampers
papers that I had painted from my stash
some of my homemade stickers
patterned tapes
random collage images
pre-cut paper shapes

My niece is going into 1st grade and here are some of her awesome pages. She was very prolific in the few hours we were making art.

My daughter enjoyed just cutting paper into lots of pieces

Next post, I will be showing you some of the pages I made on vacation.

Easy outdoor summer activity for kids

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Every summer this is one of my daughter's favorite activities. Just grab a bucket of water and some toys and cups. She's having fun giving her ponies a bath and giving them swimming lessons.

Mixed Media Canvases with Kids

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Thanks for your kind comments about my fingers! They are actually healing much faster than I expected.

From time to time, I do a cross-post for both of my blogs.. My other blog is Art is Basic, where I chronicle my adventures teaching elementary art. I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the mixed media canvases I did with an after school art class!

I thought painted canvases would be a great gift for kids to give someone in their family, so I decided to do an after school art class which I taught today. The kids in this class were in grades K-5, so I had quite a range of skill levels. 23 kids signed up!

1st grade artwork

I bought a bunch of canvases, scrapbook papers and paints on Black Friday (yep, I braved the craziest shopping day to pick up some cheap art supplies.)

5th grader

Each kid chose a 12x12" or 9"x12" canvas and a selection of scrapbook papers.

The kids cut out shapes and imagery from the patterned scrapbook paper. These were decoupaged on to the canvas using Mod-Podge puzzle saver glue (the kind that you can paint on to a finished puzzle to save it.) Paint underneath and on top of each shape. Smooth any wrinkles out with your fingers. When you are finished mod-podging, use a hair dryer to dry the glue.

3rd grader

The kids used acrylic craft paints to add paint and designs to their canvas. Colored sharpie markers were also used for fine details. It is very important to make sure the paint is dry (with a hair dryer) if you are going to use markers anywhere near the paint. It will ruin the markers if the paint is wet. Some students chose to write words on their picture.

Do you see the "love Marcia" at the bottom? so sweet! (made by a kindergartner)

The class ran from 3:15-5:00. The kids mostly all finished by 4:45, which was good because we had a HUGE mess to clean up. If I did this again, I might split it into two sessions. It was a long day for the littlest kids.