August 3, 2010

Summer Art Project Number 6

Canvas Art

It's time for another summer art project.  I really liked doing this one with the kids.  It was easy, fast, and cool!  As usual, I found this idea on a couple of other blogs...Impress your Kids and Explanation Required.  (Check them out for ideas.)

Here's what you do...

Number 1:  Choose your canvas size.

Number 2:  Using stickers, spell out a quote, verse, favorite saying, etc. on your canvas.
(I chose 6 special words.  These are traits that my parents worked hard to instill in their children.  My dad also made each one of his 4 kids a special "box" with these words engraved on the inside.) 

Number 3:  Choose your paint colors and have your kids paint the canvas, covering the letters!


Number 4:  Let dry and then peal the stickers off.


Number 5:  You may need to touch up the canvas as I did.  I just used some white paint to fill in the letters where the paint seeped under the stickers.

I'm not sure if this is where I'll keep it, but I like it for now.  I took down a couple of the other frames from these shelves and put them somewhere else, so now I need to fill in the left side of the shelf...hmmm.
Ta da!!! Think of all the possibilities! Have fun!

4 comments:

LB said...

i love this gretchen! loving the colors! did you use your new paints?

p.s. WHERE is my left-behind object?!!! The suspense is killing me!

Anonymous said...

What a lovely, special project, Gretchen....I love it! I think this one may be a favorite :-)

Love, Mom

p.s. Lis, I had a great laugh over the sight of your left-behind object!

Theresa Mezo said...

I love this Gretchen, so cool! This will definitely be on my list of "to do's" with Aidan! :)

The Welch Family said...

I LOVE THIS ONE - we might try it, too. Where did you buy the sticker letters?