Art Projects

So, we have this day room off the kitchen that has been turned into a toy room. It is a great room. Nice and bright, the girls can play in there while I cook and I can keep an eye on them. The idea is that their toys on the first floor will be in there and not take over the the other rooms but that is not always the case. We have been trying to figure out what to put on the wall in there for a while. Simon feels strongly that all artwork in our house should have a story. Great idea but you can only have so many heirloom picutres and apparently, "I went to the store and liked this picture" isn't a story that is a approved. Our friend Bridget (who is totally crafty and used to be our interior decorator when we lived in Columbus) gave us the idea of having the girls paint canvases and then hang them in the the room.

We finally took the time to go to the store with the girls and let them pick out some colors of paint. Ruthie picked pink and Lulu picked purple (shocker I know) and I picked an avacado green since the walls are a slate/green/blue color with white trim. We let them paint one color at a time. Lulu's pictures were exactly what we had envisioned for the room. And Ruthie being completely type A began to freak out at any white space. So, she turned her 2 canvases into solid colors. Simon's idea was to put their andprints and ours on her sli canvas to give it a little something more than just solid pink or purple. It was such a great family activity and I know the girls really enjoyed themselves and now we have a cool story to tell about the artwork on our walls.