When life spirals out of control, I find myself doing two things- (1) taking naps and (2) doing easy art and craft activities. It's surprising how these two activities revive my spirits. So today I wanted to share this really easy art activity that my preschooler and I recently worked on together. Inspired by Meri Cherry, we made our own GIANT family process art.
Several months ago we purchased a GIANT CANVAS from our local thrift/scrap store. (We got ours for $4! Score! But if you can't find them where you are, you could also just purchase canvases online too.)
Our canvas was already half painted light blue, but we didn't mind. On our first day working with the canvas, we grabbed our tempera paint and just painted the whole thing however we wanted.
(It was quite freeing, to work on a large canvas with no intentions in mind. We just enjoyed painting it however we felt.)
Several days later (once our paint dried), we grabbed our oil pastels and kwik stix solid tempera paint and got working again.
:) As you can see, we're both big fans of vibrant colors!
Here's a photo of our finished (for now) artwork. I look forward to adding on more details and colors and watching the canvas evolve over time.
And that's all. I hope this post finds you well, friends.
As always, here's our current list of favorite art books for you and your kiddos to connect with and enjoy!
Our current 15+ favorite art books:
- Colorful Dreamer
- A is for Art
- The Iridescence of Birds
- Modern Art Adventures
- Mix it Up
- Press Here
- Any Ed Emberley Book
- The Day the Crayons Quit
- Beautiful Oops
- Dog's Colorful Day
- Too Much Glue
- Harold and the Purple Crayon
- Day with No Crayons
- Artist to Artist
- Artist Ted
- The House Baba Built
- A Blue Butterfly: A Story of Claude Monet
- Sandy's Circus
- The Most Magnificent Thing
- The Artful Parent
Happy making, friends!