Exploring: Oil Pastels
There’s nothing quite like opening a new set of crayons and seeing them laid out all beautiful and pristine ready to use for the first time. I was offered some art materials to test out for Caran d’Ache, and was happy to do so, because although I don’t do a great number of reviews on [...]
Pin ItCreating Thank You Cards with Children’s Artwork
It’s that time again – time to make thank you cards for the Christmas presents the boys received, and get them sent off. I have to say it seems to take us longer and longer to do this every year – but I at least, feel guilty if it’s not done, and it’s not really [...]
Pin ItChildren’s Artwork – Choosing what to Keep
It’s a perennial problem – of all the mountains of artwork that young children produce, how much of it should you keep? Maybe you are sufficiently ‘ruthless’ to be able to throw it away without a qualm, but at the other extreme if you are a hoarder like me, you may find it difficult to [...]
Pin ItPhotographing Children’s Artwork
All of the ‘bespoke’ children’s artwork for Artful Kids starts with a photograph, or copy of the original work. But as you can imagine, the finished product derived from that artwork is only as good as the original photograph. For the wall-art products which Artful Kids offers, customers can either scan in the artwork themselves [...]
Pin ItChildren’s Art Cards
The summer holidays are over, and the kids are back at school – I will miss the morning lie-ins, but I confess that it’s with something of a sigh of relief that I’ve waved them back to school – at least now I can get on with the huge backlog of tasks that have lain [...]
Pin ItChildren’s Artwork Bunting Mural
Yet another way of using some of the piles of children’s artwork that you can accumulate, this is a cheap and easy way to add some colour to a child’s room, using their own artwork. I’ve been meaning to do this project for weeks now, because my elder son’s room has never been properly decorated [...]
Pin ItQuality Counts
I recently had to buy some new supplies of tempera paint. I couldn’t find the Reeves brand I had used before, so I bought some own-brand paint from a large store. It was a little cheaper, but turned out to be a false economy. It got me thinking about the art materials we give our [...]
Pin ItMore Creative Gift-wrapping with Kids
Following on from my last post on creating some Graffiti Giftwrap, I thought I’d look at a few more ideas for some creative gift-wrapping with kids. Of course there are loads of ways you can create gift wrap. The following are just a few ideas: Last year we made decorative paste papers for gift wrapping, [...]
Pin ItMini-Masterpieces – November
Thanks to everyone who contributed to last month’s Mini- Masterpieces Link-up. There was a good selection of artwork and projects, including some wonderful robot artwork from Mermaids Creations, to a Halloween appropriate Spider resist artwork from Our Creative Day. This month I am featuring my younger son’s own Halloween artwork. This is a Halloween scene [...]
Mini-Masterpieces – October Link-up
This time I’m taking no risks – September’s Mini-Masterpieces got absolutely no contributions – a first since I started it back in February. I think this is partly because I added the link-up onto another post so that lots of people missed it, and partly because having had the enforced blogging break which made me [...]
