Take a little time off, it doesn't have to be long, and make art with your children.
This can be ANYTHING creative to do together.
Yesterday, I took out some air drying clay, (yes, I have things like that stored for days like this in my art-stash-studio) we rolled it out evenly with a baking roller on the dinning room table. (Mom did this part)
Placed a small bowl on top & cut around the edge of the bowl with a butter knife to get a clay disk.Then we used stamps & coloured inkpads to imprint patterns into the wet clay. While the clay disk was still damp, we gently pushed them into the bowl with our fingers to take the shape of the bowl, and allowed them to dry overnight.
This morning, I gently nudged them out & voila!
My kids proudly made one for every family member for christmas.
ps. It doesn't matter if your children are four or forty!
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life", Pablo Picasso
This can be ANYTHING creative to do together.
Yesterday, I took out some air drying clay, (yes, I have things like that stored for days like this in my art-stash-studio) we rolled it out evenly with a baking roller on the dinning room table. (Mom did this part)
Placed a small bowl on top & cut around the edge of the bowl with a butter knife to get a clay disk.Then we used stamps & coloured inkpads to imprint patterns into the wet clay. While the clay disk was still damp, we gently pushed them into the bowl with our fingers to take the shape of the bowl, and allowed them to dry overnight.
This morning, I gently nudged them out & voila!
My kids proudly made one for every family member for christmas.
ps. It doesn't matter if your children are four or forty!
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life", Pablo Picasso
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