Artsy Fartsy Family

Fabric painting Ideas- for use on tote bags or tshirts, painting socks and decorating jackets with paint or anything else.
Paint your own Shirts
Let the kids create a work of art they can wear!
Materials (plain shirts, fabric paint, card board, brushes, and sponges)
* Have the kids start with an [...]

I just had to share this adorable video about ow to make potato stampers.

And it wasn’t nearly this cool, but hey. We used 10×10 mounted canvas squares and painted. I bought a few paint colors (for less than $5 altogether) and just let each kid do whatever they wanted. Seriously, whatever. We have a mucky muck, some lines and circles, and a princess. Mine [...]

Marbles are so cool, we actually have a lot of uses for them around here. unfortunately, they’re all locked up right now until my baby outgrows the “sticking-everything-in-her-mouth” stage. I always shop around because I’m a cheapskate, the last time I bought them for an art class, i found them cheapest at Amazon the local [...]

So- are they a tropical thing or a Pacific Northwest thing?  Why would native people from so far away each use totem poles?
I don’t know but I do know that a family totem pole is a great project.  Everyone has their own personal totem, or animal, that represents them.  In native cultures, if you are [...]

paintings and thank you cards hanging up to dry

Today we made giant thank you cards with file folders. It’s easy. First, you have to cut the edge of the folder off, so that it’s smooth.

File Folder Thank You Cards

I drew swirlies on mine with a crayon while Madelyn (6) glued random things to [...]