What you need:
crayons
metal cookie cutters (unpainted)
cookie sheet with sides
aluminum foil
oven pre-heated to 250 degrees

1. Collect all your broken (or in our case new for the project) crayons, unwrap them and break them into pieces.
2. Line your cookie sheet with a couple layers of aluminum foil. Then arrange your cookie cutters on the aluminum foil and fill them with assorted crayon pieces.
3. Place cookie sheet in preheated oven. Check after 5 minutes, and then every few minutes, until the crayons are melted. Remove the crayons from the oven and allow to cool for an hour or two. Do not mix or stir the melted crayons.
4. Carefully push crayons out of the cookie cutters and use them to draw fun multi-colored art.


By: Shena Leonard and Riley (age 4)
Mommy and Riley Blog

I finally got around to putting new batteries in the Woog's camera and she started snapping everything she could.


I took 4 of her images and made a montage with a coupe of other overlay elements.


Wa-la, a fine art piece!

By: Holli & Walker, age 3
A Girl Who Creates

Labels: holli conger

I've wanted to participate for awhile now. I found just the right opportunity when I visited Elizabeth Dulemba's blog. She had drawn a birthday cake in honor of her 40th and asked for others to color it if they'd like to. I wanted to try out some new watercolor brushes in Photoshop. I don't usually paint on the computer, but wanted to try. My 6 year old, Josh, wanted to help. He'd never used a Wacom tablet or Photoshop before. He picked the colors and painted. I showed him how to shade and highlight. Sometimes he agreed with me, sometimes not. He'll be an art director someday, I'm sure.

By: Laura Zarrin & Josh, 6
Creative Whimsies

Labels: cake, Laura Zarrin

This is our very first ever blog post, and we're not sure we'll get it right.... Wish us luck!

Our latest big art project is the redesigning of the bathroom Riley and his little brother, Cabot, share. Due to some leaks we had to tear out all the walls and everything - that meant we got to start from scratch on our bathroom design! Riley decided he wanted his new bathroom to be the 100 Acre Woods (he loves Winnie the Pooh) so I got started drawing the mural. Riley helped paint the tree and the hills/grass. He wasn't tall enough to reach it all so I had to help out. He also got to do most of the flowers you see. He had a great time decorating his new bathroom. =)

I'm attaching a couple of photos so you can see our progress. Hopefully we'll have trim and everything soon too -- that is Daddy's job. (=





By: Shena & Riley (age 4)
Mommy and Riley Blog

A Zebra. Kenzie announced we'd make, with this coy little expression.

The outcome is:


As usual, I let Kenzie do all the painting, which again resulted in a big pile of stuff all toned in the same color. Sadly, aside from flowers, which I didn't want to include this time - I couldn't think of a thing to do with the other junk. So, I scrapped it and kept it simple. We have some pieces that aren't the color they should be (eyes and ears), but, I do want her to enjoy and be free in the process. Obviously, I did take some liberties with embellishing her painting, for the zebra and thought bubble's sake.

As Kenzie painted, I busied myself with sorting another junk pile which sits on the counter in a basket. I found this little picture of her in her lion costume and decided to include it.

So, we have a cowardly zebra - hiding out from the mean, mean lion. Said lion is licking their chops. :)

By: stacy & kenzie (age 3)
Mama's Doodles

Labels: stacy d.

A quick piece while we worked on Woogie Wednesday today. She painted a styrofoam plate while I worked on assembling the other piece and then we made "ocean animals."

By: Holli & Walker, age 3
A Girl Who Creates

Labels: holli conger

A Hippo, she ordered. Our junk pile included two umbrellas at her insistence (is it bad that I keep the accumulated junk collection in the liquor cabinet??)
Kenzie painted. Mama arranged. Oh, and the background was (mainly) Mama's fault too.

By:Stacy & Kenzie, age 3
Mama's Doodles

Labels: stacy d.

Another fun Junk A Doodles piece!

Here's what we started off with:


I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
"How 'bout daddy?!"

Alright, I guess since she already made mommy, it's daddy's turn.

She paints his goatee and then proceeds to paint herself for the duration of the project. "Hey, look at my tummy mommy!" Humm...whatever, she's having a bath tonight anyway.

And here's how it turned out:



I think anyone who knows him would say it looks like him. And he'd even wear a funky patterned shirt like that, much to my dismay.

By: Holli & Walker, age 3
A Girl Who Creates

Labels: holli conger