Art Projects

The girls love to make art projects. It is so much fun to watch them while they work on them too. Lily will sit still and concentrate really hard on what she is doing; she really takes pride in her projects. Mia has fun with projects too but she scribbles a bit on one page then moves on to the next to scribble a little more. She's only 2.5 though, and she still has fun making things! I am trying to take pictures of their art work (there is a ton of it too since they like to keep every single thing they make!) since I do all digital scrapbooks now. Here are a few pictures of art from the last few months.

Mia made this at school for Mother's Day. I love her little hand prints! It is still up on our refrigerator, and she will often point to it and say "My hands Mommy!"

Mia made this at church for Mother's Day. It's her little thumbprints made to look like butterflies and a flower. It said "Thumbody loves you" inside. How cute!
Lily colored this hat. She loves to use all available crayons when she colors and make "rainbow pictures."

Lily was so proud of herself after coloring this treasure chest picture (I love the Word World tv show and coloring book!). She wrote both of our names on it, and said it was for me. She was so excited about it, she found the tape and proceeded to tape it up on our bedroom wall. It's been there about 3 months now because I don't want to take it down and Lily think we don't like it!

We all love the Alex Little Hands art project kits. Each kit has within it 4 or 5 individually wrapped art projects. I think that is a great idea! When Borders went out of business a few months ago, I stocked up on these during their sale. This is Mia's ladybug from their "Paper Plate Kit." The other paper plate insects that we made were a bumblebee, spider, butterfly and caterpillar.

This was Lily's free-style drawing of a tree with a couple of flowers. I think it is very funny that when Lily runs out of room (by running into a flower), she just continues writing a word below where she started. Like me, she doesn't like for things to overlap.

This is a mosaic Lily made. The circus design was already prepared, and she followed the pattern to lay down the correct stickers. She had a lot of fun with this too.

Both girls love to paint too. Here's one of Mia's paintings from our Thomas the Train paint book.

Lily made this rainbow about 6 months ago at church. She loved using the "colored Cheerios" (she had no idea they were Fruit Loops) to make her rainbow. She said her favorite part was trying all the colors before gluing them down!

Liz found a set of cool crowns to use in art projects. The girls love putting stickers on them. Liz told me that Lily took this crown and these stickers to her room at one point, and when she came back out, she had written her name in stickers on it.

Lily's recent cat coloring. She said she left it blank between her eyes because some cats have a white patch right there. So apparently she was trying to go for realistic...okay!

I love this little giraffe coloring! Not only do I like the heart that Lily drew, but I love that she colored every one of the hairs on the giraffe's mane a different color. I'm telling you, she will really concentrate to get her picture just the way she wants it!