I have a pretty well stocked supply of crafts. Maybe too well stocked. I have a lot of things sitting around taking up space that I haven't done with the kids yet. But when things get really desperate I can usually grab something for us to do. On this particular day the kids were running around screaming (literally, that's what they were doing) after school and I grabbed a package of ceramic figures I had purchased in the Walmart craft section (PS: their craft section is definitely worth checking out). We got the paints and things set up and the kids got painting. On a normal day, I probably wouldn't have been able to drop everything at dinner prep time and do this, but since my mother-in-law is here helping and we were only having a modest dinner that night we were able to make this happen. I love it when the kids paint figurines like this...they seem to get more into it than painting on paper. Anna is working on her zebra...which was orange and then became black.
Matthew usually has a short attention span when it comes to art projects (unlike Anna), but he spent quite a while painting his figures.
Never wanting to be left out of a big kid activity, Grant had to be a part of this too. I let him use some dot markers (Walmart also has a generic brand of these). He had fun and managed to get quite painty. He's just dangerous with paint, what can I say.
Matthew still concentrating hard. I think that might be a tiger.
Anna has a lot of stamina when it comes to art projects. She loves painting and drawing and she will work and work and work at her creations. She has said several times that she wants to be an artist when she grows up and I would like to introduce her to new mediums, like sculpture...you know at a preschooler level (is that just play-doh?). I know little to nothing about art by the way. She's very focused on painting her elephant here. The painting activities are always fun, even if the set up and clean up seem to take longer than the activity, its still worth it.
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