Here’san artsy cure for a cold winter day, when you’ve been cooped up indoors for far too long: Line your kitchen floor with the Sunday newspaper, grab some colorful paints, thick and thin paintbrushes, dress your kids in their messiness-allowed gear and let them paint their own masterpieces on canvas.
Joann Fabrics has a good selection of canvases – we chose the 10×12 size – and if you use the 40% of coupon (usually there is one per week in the ad found in the Sunday Trib)you can snag one for about . Joann also carries colorful water-based acrylic paints for each. For a palette, I used an old mini-muffin pan.
Fratellone loves art projects too, and he made a colorful painting as well. Last weekhe and Ialso enjoyed making some Winter Sun Catchers together -you’ll find themhanging on the iron fence in front of our home. Fratellone liked this project so much so that he asked to make more winter sun catchers when his cousin came over, and they spent quite awhile experimenting with food coloring. Certainly there isn’t much sun to catch in Chicago these days, but the sun catchers have added a bit of color to our home with no worries of them melting away any time too soon.