What you need:
• Paper
• Watercolor
• Sharpie
What you do:
• Draw the poles and the wires with a black sharpie.
• Dip a finger in the paint.
• Make finger prints in different colors on the wires.
• Draw the rest of the birds with the sharpie.
Bird Art
November 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Chalk Art
August 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
What you need:
• Corn starch
• Water
• Baking Soda
• Food Coloring
• Film Canisters
• Alka-Seltzer
• Paper
What you do:
• Mix together 1/3 part corn starch, 1/3 part soda, and 1/3 part water.
• Fill each film canister 1/3 of the way with the mixture.
• Add few drops of food coloring, mix.
• Take one alka-seltzer tablet and break it into 3-4 pieces.
• Drop the pieces into the canister, and then quickly pop the top on and flip the canister over.
• Stand back and enjoy the art.
• The film canister will fly through the air like a rocket, leaving beautiful art behind.
Egg Art
July 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
What you need:
• Emptied eggshells
• Paint
• Canvas
What you do:
•F ill the eggs with paint.
• Toss the eggs to the canvas.
• Let the masterpiece dry.
• Display.
Bok Choy Roses
March 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
What you need:
• Canvas
• Paint
• Bok Choy
• Cutting board
• Knife
• Brush
What you do:
• Using the knife, cut off the bottom of the bok choy.
• The bok choy leaves can be saved to make a dinner. (The closer to the bottom you cut, the tighter the “rose petals” will be.)
• Paint the back ground.
• Let it dry.
• Use the brush to apply a light coating of paint to the cut side of the bok choy.
• Use this as a stamp to make roses on the canvas.
• Use green paint and the paint brush to make rose stems and leaves.
• When finished, wash off the paint from the bok choy and compost it.
• Let you artwork dry.
• Display!
3D Flower Art
March 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
What you need:
• Canvas
• Acrylic paint
• Egg carton
• Scissors
• Beads
• Green pipe cleaners
• Bow
• Tacky glue
What you do:
• Paint the egg carton white.
• Let it dry.
• Cut apart egg carton sections.
• Trim each “flower” to have petals.
• Paint the egg carton sections yellow and orange.
• Let them dry.
• Paint the canvas with any color of your choice.
• Let it dry.
• Trim pipe cleaners to the right length.
• Tie them together for a stem.
• Glue to the canvas with tacky glue.
• Glue a bead in the center of each flower.
• Glue the flowers to the canvas.
• Display!
Heart Stamp
February 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
What you need:
• Paper
• Acrylic Paints
• Potato
• Heart shaped cookie cutter
• Small, sharp pairing knife
What you do:
• Cut the potato in half near the widest portion.
• Using the small heart shaped cookie cutter, insert it into the potato until the top is flush with the flat end of the potato.
• Using a small sharp pairing knife, cut into the potato about 1/4 of an inch down until you feel your knife touch the cookie cutter.
• Continue cutting all the way around the potato until the waste is easily removed.
• Start stamping the hearts!
Crazy Love
February 13, 2014 By Leave a Comment
What you need:
• Paper
• Black marker
• Watercolor
• Brush
• Straw
What you do:
• Draw the head of you figure, leaving enough space for the hair.
• Place a big drop of paint on the sheet with a brush.
• Take the straw and blow the paint towards the desired direction.
• Let it dry.
• Display.
Handprint Swans
January 17, 2014 By Leave a Comment
What you need:
• Canvas
• Paint
• Brush
• Hands
What you do:
• Paint the canvas (make the background).
• Let it dry.
• Paint hands.
• Press the hands on the canvas. (Fingers need to face outward, while the palm towards the center).
• Using a paint brush, fill in some spots of the handprints that didn’t really show up.
• Paint the necks of the swans in a heart shape.
• Let it dry.
• Paint the beak and the eyes.
•Let it dry completely.
Reindeer Art
December 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
What you need:
• Canvas
• Acrylic Paint
• Feet
• Brush
• Sharpie
What you do:
• Brush paint onto the foot and press the foot gently on to the canvas.
• Let it dry.
• Draw or paint the antlers.
• Draw the eyes.
• Paint the nose.
Autumn Tree
November 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
What you need:
• Canvas
• Painters tape
• Acrylic paint (brown, yellow, red and orange)
• Brush
• Scissors
What you do:
• What you do:
• Take the painter’s tape and create a tree design with branches by attaching stripes of tape from one end of the canvas to the other. Make sure to rub the tape onto the canvas to really secure so that the paint doesn’t bleed under the tape strips.
• Fill each shape created by the paint lines with your paint colors.
• Let your painting dry completely before trying to peel off the tape.
• Once all of the paint is dry, slowly peel away the paint strips. If you need to, touch up any spots with the base color where the paint might have gotten under the tape.
• Display.
Buttoned Art
October 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
What you need: 
• Canvas
• Acrylic Paint
• Brush
• Buttons
• Tacky Glue
• Thread
What you do:
• Apply white acrylic paint to the canvas in vertical brushstrokes.
• While the paint is still wet, add a few gray lines and blend the colors to create a striated appearance.
• Tie the buttons to the canvas with thread.
• Glue the twine to the back of the canvas stretcher frame to secure.
