Snowmen... acrylic and oil pastels - Winter Art Class

Simple Snowmen Illustrations by kids!

(ages 3-6 years old)

Acrylic paint on blue paper (age 3) She makes amazing circles!

Oils pastels on black paper (age 6) Beautiful color!

Oil pastels on blue paper (age 6) Lots of buttons!

They had so much fun and their snowmen drawings are fabulous!

Making Our CLAY SNOWMAN Family

This was so much fun for the fam! 
Making snowmen out of clay... 

Not that we really wanted to have the snow come as early as it did, but we did enjoy sculpting our snowman family! Each of us in our family made a snowman to represent ourself: my hubby, myself, our daughter (8 years), our son (6), and I made our baby girl's (18 mos). My hubby and I are in the rear admiring the view...ahhh...

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Simple Snowmen Illustrations 

by Kids 

(ages 3-6 years)

 Acrylic on blue paper (age 3) Amazing circles!

 Oil pastels on black paper (age 6) Long nose...

Oil Pastels on blue paper (age 6) Lots of buttons!

**Fun snow time!**

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More Simple Clay SNOWMEN 

(made and painted by 6 year-olds)

Paint and glitter!

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Snowman Window Painting

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A very creative LIFE-Size Chess Set

We took a visit to my son's kindergarten teacher's farm house to pick out a pumpkin (or 13). We were surprisingly entertained by all of the farm animals (pigs, a donkey, a playful baby yak, chickens, dog-there are probably more), tree house built by his teacher, colorful farm house and grounds,  and the LIFE-SIZE METAL CHESS SET HER HUSBAND WELDED! What a creative Christmas present. 

Abstract Mural - Our Contemporary Painted Quilt Blocks {tutorial}

Voila!

Yes, this took me forever to post, due to... maybe just lack of time! This was such a fun collaborative art project to do with all the 3rd graders at my kids' school. The 3rd graders were studying quilts and patterns, so we collaborated on a modern day quilt with 140 pieces in 42 blocks... out of paper instead of material and then into a mural for display at their school.

Here's a short tutorial:

Prep: Measure and pre-cut your masonite plywood(1/8" or 1/4" thick) to fit the number of squares or rectangles you want. Layout your shapes, pencil (free-hand works great) your lines in, number them so you can put them back together,  and then cut.

Pre-drill holes into masonite board, frame with 1"x 2"s and fasten with screws (nails eventually poke out) flush with board. Add corner braces/support (triangles).  Spackle front of board, dry and lightly sand.

 Paint: First draw with pencil, then paint (acrylic works best, not poster paint). There were enough cut shapes for each child to paint 2-3 shapes.

  

Collect: Look at all of those shapes on my table! I sorted them by number to each numbered rectangle, and joined the quilt blocks together with small pieces of tape to create each row. The entire masonite board was painted with black acrylic.

Adhere: I adhered each row by brushing Mod Podge on to the back of the paper, then pressing/flattening onto the masonite board. Lay plastic wrap on top of artwork, and then lay books on top with additional weight if needed. I adhered the taped-together rows, row by row to make sure they'd all fit.

(Go HERE to see a more detailed tutorial of adhering a mural with Mod Podge)

Patterns & A Modern Quilt: To help create a quilt look, I left a 2" black edge, creating a "binding".  After it was all adhered, I applied 3 light layers of Mod Podge for a protective coat.

This turned out really well... the kids were sooooooooooooooo proud to present this! They sang me a little "thank you" song at the end. (I'm standing in the back with an orange sweater holding onto my daughter.) Had a wonderful time!

Let me know if you make one, I'd love to see, whether great or small!

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