These are our French doors to our little sun room. They are often covered with my daughter's art. Would you like to see behind them? Ha! Not on your life! It's the smallest room in the house but the one we all gravitate to. It's a craft room, extra kitchen storage, tool chest, teen hangout-video game central, and home to Buddy the hamster. In other words, it's not blog-ready and probably never will be. But it does make a great art gallery space!
Sweetie pie is a teen but she has difficulty with fine motor skills so we work a lot on drawing, cutting, pasting, and taping. The great thing is she loves arts and crafts so she doesn't even realize she is "working" on her skills as she does it.
I drew BOO! with white crayon on black construction paper. She cut it out and taped it to this ghost from Micheal's. We put inexpensive scrapbook paper behind the glass for color and she liked it so much we did all the sections this way.
This little happy pumpkin patch is just scrapbook paper with happy faces drawn on each pumpkin. I did the one in the top corner to show what we were doing and she did the rest. She has only recently started adding the pupils to the eyes and the the little wrinkles at the ends of the smiles. :) Her happy face drawings have always had such personality. I just love them. I don't think she thinks about the placement of the faces, she just puts her hand down and where ever it is she starts. It looks like she really does it on purpose.
Jack-o-lanterns are perfect for practicing teeth, and triangles!
She is a pretty prolific artist. It doesn't take much per page to make her happy so I get cheap supplies in bulk. I often find she has gotten up in the middle of the night and done 10 or 20 drawings then gone back to bed.
I made a simple template from a cereal box and had her trace around it onto construction paper then cut it out. She decided on her own that the bats needed happy faces. It looks like this guy even got eyebrows! It's hard to see but she also copied "boo" from the ghost onto the bats. It's so much fun to watch her progress. We're pulling out some stuff she made last year so I'll show you more during week.
Keep and eye out for my 100th Post/100th Follower/Birthday Giveaway coming soon. Whew! That was a mouth full. Since I'm so busy right now, lets just wing it and call it the Fall Frenzy Giveaway. Enjoy your weekend!
