Creating Art With My Girl

Today was a great day.

The kind of day where you feel so overwhelmed with love and joy, you just want to freeze time.

I felt motivated, caffeinated, and ready to take on the day by 7:30 am.  That's a little early for me.  I usually fall back asleep after little man's first morning feeding.  That is, if my sweet three year old doesn't come climbing into my bed before then.

So, back to the fact that I started my day feeling motivated instead of tired.  That might have something to do with the fact that I forced myself to go to sleep after my last pumping session last night.  Usually, I stay up and watch a few episodes of, Parenthood, before attempting to fall asleep.  By the way, great show.

Or, it might have a lot to do with the magical beauty of a certain baby sleeping through the night.

So about today.  I made it my goal to do an art project with my daughter.  We had so much fun.

She loves to paint.  I'm not sure why.  Okay, that was a joke.

I'm actually surprised by this because when she was a baby, she hated anything that came close to touching her sweet little precious hands.


We decided to gain inspiration from this Pinterest project.  I pinned it a long time ago and recently decided to start saving lids so I could actually do something like it.

Click Here to see how it was created.


I dug out a small canvas, paint, paint brushes, old circulars, scissors, glue, and of course, the lids.

  

K started by painting the canvas blue.  She took her time like she always does when paint is involved.



Then, she cut up green strips of paper and circles out of the old circular I gave her.  She loves using scissors. Some days I will give her pieces of paper and a bowl and she will sit for what seems like hours just cutting up paper. It's a fun and cheap activity for preschoolers.



After cutting came the gluing.  She hasn't quite learned the phrase, a little goes a long way.  I helped her glue everything down, including the tiny silk flowers she found in my art bag that she insisted on including on the canvas.



I love creating art with her.  She soaks up every second of it.  I watch her making decisions about where she wants things to go and it reminds me of why exploring art is so important for young children.

But that's another post for another day.

These spring flowers will look perfect up on our mantel.  Every time I look at them I will remember the day that my sweet girl sat at the kitchen table, still in her pajamas, and created art with me.