Fingerprint flowers and Butterfly thumbs...a new canvas!

I'm back with another fun little art project that you can do with your kids (or on your own as well).  Its been a little trend in our house lately that the days my daughter is home with me we do some kind of 'art' project.  I call it Homeschooling Art Class 101...lol!  There's so many fun things you can do with a little bit of paint, a blank canvas and a few tiny fingers and thumbs!  Here's what we came up with!

I've created a little step-by-step video tutorial to show you just how easy and FUN this is to do!  Both my daughter and I are very proud of it and think its pretty cool that the flowers and butterflies are made from our finger and thumb prints!  We have lots of homemade paintings with hand and foot prints from the kids but we've yet to do something like this!

 Here's the video! I hope you like it! 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!  Have a great week!

ROCK your paints!!!!

Since my office is back in order, I've had a chance to go through some boxes we still haven't unpacked since moving here. I came across a bunch of rocks that I painted around the time my son was born (about 10 years ago)....I loooove painting! I'd find cool shaped rocks and paint them into houses. I even made little nativity scenes on tiny rocks but gave them away as gifts and didn't get any pictures of them (waaah!). They make great paperweights...lol! I have sold some but here is a little sample of my favourites:

We put the Haunted House out every year at Halloween!

This one is roughly the size of the top of a tootsie pop sucker!

The chimneys are formed using wood filler, then, when dry (which takes no time at all), you can paint right over it!

Its a great activity to do with the kids (very inexpensive) and the hunt for the perfect rock is sometimes the best part!

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you're enjoying your weekend!