Praises of a Wife and Mommy

How are you staying busy with being home more?   I asked on our local free site if anyone had any house paint they wanted to get rid of.  I got several cans and now I have painted several canvas's.  I am trying new ways to do the pour painting!  I make a mess but it is very therapeutic for me.    What are you doing to stay busy? 

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With the new house comes new decorating! :)  I wanted the kids to help create the art for their rooms so we created some neat name canvas prints.  :)  JoAnn's had the canvas on sale so that was a bonus.  The kids then picked out some paint.  Selah picked pink, purple, and yellow, and Titus picked yellow, blue, and green.   I used painters tape to write there names.  This tape is easy to pull off and I was happy with the results.  There were only a couple small spots where paint seeped through a little bit.   It was fun watching the two paint.  Titus used a brush for a little bit then had fun using his fingers.  Selah on the other hand did not want her color's to mix.  She used her fingers for most of her painting.   So what do you think?  I LOVE THEM!!!!!  :)  I think we might have to do this again!  :) 

DAY 20 CHALLENGE: PAINT! DAY 20 CHALLENGE: Paint! In anyway you like! Get creative  [and maybe a little messy] , and spend 15 minutes of uninterrupted time, with the kids today! Challenge yourself to use a new tool to paint with. Or even better, paint on something out of the ordinary! Or maybe use a new method of painting! We made the salt dough and then used cookie cutters to get some Christmas shapes.  We cut out hearts, stars, Christmas tree's, candy canes, and cross's which will all be ornaments to give as gifts!  We also made a hand print for both kids!  :)  Selah got to paint them and put glitter on them.   Salt dough was super easy, I found the recipe from The Imagination Tree !  1 cup salt, 1 cup flour and 1/2 cup water!  Then bake at 200 for about 10-12 minutes.  

We felt like painting so we got creative.  We walked around the house and outside searching for things we could "paint" with.   So here is the set up: long paper rolled out paint on a tray rock squishy ball leaf straw spoon sponges guitar pick paper First up was the squishy ball (her favorite). Next a golf ball and I loved the dotted effect it gave.   She loves getting messy! Next, was painting with a leaf and she thought this was hard but after I showed her that less paint was better she liked it.   Oh, the fun you can have with a straw.  She struggled blowing hard enough but she thought it was so funny cause she got paint all over her lips.   Laughing because I told her she had blue lips.    Getting ready to help clean up the mess.  Too late she is the mess!  She was due for a bath anyways and it was washable paint so it all came off in the wash.  I saved the paper again and I think I am going to wrap her birthday pre...