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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Use Your Noodle!

My kids seems to be on opposite schedules lately.  Lucca wakes up early, and is going down for a nap just when Raina is waking up for the day.  This leaves us with a 2-3 hour window of times in the morning when it's just me and Raina!  It's awesome... except we can't go anywhere.  Sometimes we fill the time with a movie and snuggles, but most of the time Raina wants to do science or an art project!  On those days, I pick my brain for ideas or head over to one of my Pinterest boards - Art with Raina or Learn at Home.

This morning's project has been living on my pinterest board for a while now:  Noodle Painting!  Yeah, it's as fun as it sounds!

We had no spaghetti, so I used our last bunch of these Japanese noodles

I thought it would be enough for just two colors, but it turned out to be enough for 3 bowls of alternative paintbrushes!


Then I topped them off with ketchup, mustard, and... blueberry sauce?


and mixed them up!  I think it looks purty!






We taped a roll of easel paper to the kitchen floor so we'd have a nice big work area to play on.  Raina helped with the taping.  That little lady loves herself a good roll of masking tape!  


MESSY TIME!


Of course, my vision was not hers :)  I imagined we would use the noodles as paintbrushes... she decided it was better to use a SMOOSH effect!



"Mumma!  This feels gooey!!"






Here are some of the fun marks the noodles made on paper:







And this is what we were left with :)  

3 bowls of  rainbow noodles...


...and one pretty rad painting!


Friday, April 20, 2012

Art man gets a new life

I've had this bendy art man since college.  He was all sad and boring in his unfinished wood outfit.  So Raina and I made him pretty.  

We painted him first.  "ALL colors!," to quote Raina!



Then we modge podge and glittered the heck off this dude.


Now he can stretch with confidence!  


No more plain armpits!  Nothing to be ashamed about!

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You are beautiful, art man!




I don't know what exactly we are going to do with him now.  I thought he should move into the princess castle, but that idea was vetoed.  For now he sits on a shelf above my sewing table... reminding me to be different.  :)



Then I tried to convince Raina that we should fancy up this little zebra.  I failed.


In case you were unsure, we got messy.  As usual.  


Paint dancing is a perfect way to start your day!