Bubble Art

Continuing my commitment to actually trying the things I find on Pinterest,

I gave Bubble Art a try with Logan. We found this idea from The Chaos and The Clutter. Logan is three and a half and drinks from a big boy cup or from a straw. So I wondered if he would drink it...so we adapted this a bit.

 

Materials:

Paper -we used our favorite finger painting paper, which has a glossy side

Paint or Food Colouring

Dish Soap: I used Green Works hoping it would be slightly "better" for him if he drank some

Straws

Water

Bowls

Drop cloth 

 I made a point to explain that we were using soap that we normally use to wash dishes. We smelt it and I explained that it tasted yucky though. I had him help me squirt it out into the small bowls of water.

  

 Then we added some food coloring to each bowl and explained that we blow only out. I figured a bit of soap in his mouth would be gross but not as harmful as bunch of paint -so we used food colouring until I was sure he wasn't going to drink it.

 

 While a bit light, the food colouring did show up on the white paper.

 

After I knew that Logan got the hang of it, we switched it up to adding a squirt or two of tempra paint to the water

Kalia waiting patiently for her turn to paint (see here!)

Hmmm, maybe this paint isn't so washable after all?

Okay, time to move this to the grass!

Logan liked putting the bubbles right on the page, rather than placing the sheet over the bubbles to make the print...

Drying:

Our finished products! These would be cute as wrapping paper...

Linking up to: No Time for Flash Card's Link & Learn, Design Dazzle

Logan's first day at Preschool

Thanks to Pinterest, I found this idea from Zoot!

Baby Jumper Paintings

Kali enjoys watching Logan do art but I've been trying to come up with more ways to involve her. Her baby finger painting went well so it was time to try another baby painting experiment! 

Materials:

Hard surface: we did this on the sidewalk, if you put a tablecloth down you could do it inside

Large paper: We used five fingerprinting papers (glossy on the backside) taped together with masking tape

Washable paints: We kept it simple and used red and blue so she could mix them together to get purple

Baby Jumper

Kalia is now almost eight months. This would be a great first baby painting project, especially if you are worried about your child getting too messy or eating the paint (although you can make edible paint!) 

Setting up the paper:

 Logan checking out the progress

 Look at those cute chubby legs!

 Kali's finished project! Logan was very impressed that she made purple!

 Not to be left out, Logan also made some footprint art!

 

 

Logan's finished project:

 

The clean up was fun too! Logan used his spray bottle on his and Kali's feet

And w he got to use the hose to clean the sidewalk...

Linking to: Today's Creative Blog,

Music and Paint: Abstract Expressionism Lesson

 Part Two of our Classified Mom art project was working with the idea of Abstract Expressionism. 

(Part one was painting with Kool-Aid!)

 Canvas: I used one already attached to a board from Dollarama
Acrylic Paint: Dollarama again!
Brushes: We used a bunch of different ones we had in our craft cupboard
Music: I cut in a Hotel Costes CD, very funky lounge-type music with a lot of soul

As always, curious Kalia supervised

I talked to him about expressing yourself though painting and about what action painting was. I explained that if you can dance to music, you can also paint to music. He's three and a half so it was interesting to see it somewhat click with him. And while I told him he could move around and dance and paint, he preferred to sit and make his paintbrush "dance".

 We was really interested in the colours mixing and swirling together on the canvas. We normally use paper so he was excited about how much paint he could use on the canvas.

Trying a different brush...

 It's around this point that I had to restrain myself from yanking this away from him --it looked really neat but I left it up to him to say when it was finished

 Blue and red make purple --Logan loves to mix up this colour combination!

 

Patting the paintbrush on canvas to the music

Kalia and I watching Logan painting

 "I'm done!"

 I just hot glued the canvas to an old frame painted black

 Bottom two on the right are made by Kalia -see here