these are the paintings C made. one is for her teacher and the other two are for her grandfathers for father's day. they are acrylic on flat canvases. it was their first time using real paints and real canvases, so it was exciting for all of us to see the results. as you can see, they came out pretty good!
these are the paintings that M made for her dadda and her two grandfathers. you can see that on her first painting she started out really enthusiastic. she didn't want to stop painting on it, until i showed her that she had two more canvases to paint on and asked her if she was done. so she quickly continued on the next one and on this 2nd one she started mixing paints more, which caused me to get a bit worried about the colors getting all muddy. so i tried to discourage too much mixing and by the 3rd painting she wasn't having so much fun anymore. she started putting the brush onto the canvas and looking at me for approval and then moved on to the next color and repeated the process. i felt bad that i ruined her fun and she obviously did, too cause she didn't want to paint much more after that, which explains all that empty space. too bad. still, i'm really proud of the work she did and hopefully the next time we paint she will want to paint again and be more careful, too.seeing as how father's day is tomorrow, i thought it would be safe enough to show what my girls and i made for their dadda.
first off, i decided to do a typical (read cheezy) father's day t-shirt. i chose to do this one with the words "this dad deserves a pat on the back" freezer paper stencilled because at the time we were working on this project my husband was also going through some work-related stress that was getting our whole family down, but it obviously affected him the most. and i think that despite all the worry he had, he was still taking care of his responsibilities and being a wonderful husband and father.
here is the back where the three of us stamped our hand print as if giving him a pat on the back. i didn't have enough fabric paints and so i borrowed a few from my MIL. those are the ones that didn't show up so well because the paints she let me borrow were thinner and probably not meant for printing on knit shirts. i think they were more for painting on silk with paintbrushes. oh well! i know he probably wouldn't have worn this shirt anywhere but at home. i don't blame him either, but still, it was a nice project to do with my girls.i still remember when i only had C and she was 2 years old that we did a similar father's day present with a t-shirt that said "my daughter walks all over me!" and i had C walk around the shirt with paint on her feet! it was very messy! but what i find amusing is that the next day we did that project she asked her father if she could paint with her feet and he was so confused! i had to explain it all to him after we gave him his present on father's day. we had a good laugh!
this is another t-shirt that i made using the silhouettes of my girls. i also did this with freezer paper stencils. i had to ask my husband for help with this project because i'm still not really good with using our drawing program. he usually doesn't ask any questions because he knows it will be a surprise for him, even if he does help me out. i hope these shirts don't fit him too big. i made the mistake of ordering them a size too big. we'll see!
and here is another project we made using pictures of my girls from M's birthday party. i printed the pictures on paper because i wasn't sure if the project would work out the way i wanted and so i didn't want to waste any of our photo paper. i cut the pictures into oval shapes glued the pictures onto wax paper. i then helped the girls glue the sequins because my glue bottle was really difficult to squeeze. and then had C make some crayon shavings and let the girls sprinkle glitter and crayon shavings as they pleased.
once they were satisfied i put another piece of wax paper on top and a layer of newspaper on top and below the project and ironed it just enough to melt the crayons and making a seal around the edge of the picture. after it cooled off, i cut it out using scalloped edge scissors, punched a hole on top and tied a piece of string for hanging.
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