Dandelion Paintings

The kids love to paint. Today we decided to paint with a paintbrush alternative. We went hunting for dandelions in the neighborhood (not too hard to find :)) and came back with a bunch.

They stamped with them...

and smeared the paint with the dandelions..

Got a little messy too!

and William decided to paint the table.

Come back and check this post later for their finished paintings!

Ella's Library Bag

Ella was so excited to decorate her own library bag.

I think she did a great job!

My Budding Artist

Ella's been getting into painting again lately.

She made the cutest little caterpillar, complete with a sun, a tree, a cloud and some grass.

I love it! You should see our ever growing collection of paintings covering the walls in our kitchen. :)

My Little Artist

Ella and I are having a nice hour-hour and a half to ourselves in the morning while William naps, so we take advantage of our time alone to have our art time. We had so much fun!

We're still reinforcing our upper case letters, but I decided to start throwing in some lower case letters as well. Ella's been really into the letter H, so she made this today.

She knew the letter and sound right away, and really enjoyed stamping hearts, putting on heart stickers and also adding a few heart shaped jewels to her "little" h.

I love Fall, and was am so excited for all the Fall activities! We've been reading a lot of Fall and apple books, and this morning Ella made this apple tree. I didn't get any pictures of her making it unfortunately. But she glued on the tree, the leaf top, the grass, and made the apples with her finger. The sun is her palm, and she painted on the rays (with my help) with her finger.

She was having so much fun she wanted to paint more. She asked for a paintbrush, so I gave her that and also a car to make tracks and a few of her fisher price animals to make prints as well.

A couple days ago we did these art projects. My camera battery had died so I didn't get any pictures of her making these. :( She had sooo much fun with the paint dobbers!

We're going through the numbers (though my little smarty can identify, count and put in order all the numbers 1-10).

We also made this leaf suncatcher together. Ella laid on the pink, yellow and orange tissue paper squares and sprinkled on some pretty gold glitter. (I love my laminator!)

So, so, so much fun!

Paint! Paint!

That's what Ella's been telling me lately. She didn't do much painting while we were on vacation (except for water color painting..:). So we got busy making masterpieces today. Ella picked the three colors then we went to work.

This is Ella's ball painting. It was a really quick piece to make and Ella enjoyed rolling the golf balls around.

We also did q-tip painting.

She then accessorized with stickers. :)

And bath poof painting.


I think Ella enjoyed the freedom to play around and also use some atypical painting instruments.