Painting Pumpkins

October 29, 2009 Thursday
Cea and I had picked out some pumpkins, and I had bought some paint--as knives, kids and myself do not mix very well. . . We had fun painting away, and were rather proud of the result--we are both around the same level of artistic ability.

Everything is ready to paint

The end result

The proud artist--getting ready to display the art at the front door

Princesses and Art

October 21st Wednesday

This afternoon Mircea dressed up as a princess and we decided to do some more artwork. . .

A butterfly cutout that is sticky, and crepe paper squished into little balls

having a blast

The final product

This princess is sure talented in the arts!

Artwork Display

October 1st Thursday

We had fun painting
Cea has painting smocks, but she prefers her dads t-shirts!

The display wall

The artist

Wednesday, May 6th

We had a great time in music class. The songs were fun, the snack was yummy, and we got to play with playdoh. When we got home Mircea said, "Mom, I need to paint today." So, we had lunch and I got out the water color paints. We tried the little ones you see in the picture, then we switched to other water color paints, and then we switched to some press down and paint items--which worked the best.
We painted together--so items like the laundry did not get done--but painting is WAY more fun than laundry!
Uh, I would recommend that NO ONE visit us the next couple days, as we might not have any clothes! snicker!

Starting out . . .

We have done several feet of painting at this point!

Paper bag puppets (we did a few days ago)

My older sister showed me a box she had bought for Samantha. Inside the box are several art projects for kids to do. They are VERY cool art projects, and are definitely awesome for the inartistic parent--which I am. So, I bought one for our household.
The following are 2 paper bag puppets that Mircea made. One is an elephant and the other is a lion. The parts were all punch out, and then you glue them on the paper bag, and then you add stickers (spots) as decoration. We chatted about what each part was, and then Mircea did the gluing and the sticking (sometimes I helped with the gluing, but she always did the sticking!) As you can see, the end result was fun! She liked to put the puppet on her hand and then say, "look mom, it's yawning like this, AAAAAHH."