My sister Debbie sent me this picture of her one year old granddaughter`s artwork. Light bulb moment!
I am still looking for the cheapest way to decorate this apartment that I hope to only be in for a few months. Wishful thinking? So I decided to put my 27 month old grandson to work. I bought a package of 5 canvases for $19 that I got for $10 with a coupon, and 6 jars of craft paint for 69 cents each. I bought some cheap paint brushes and a package of letter stencils both totaling about $12. Then I bought two black chalk board talking bubbles for $3 each. Now it was time to put the boy to work.
While his parents are with his sister in the NICU, I picked him up from daycare and took him back to my apartment. I pre-painted the background of 5 canvases and they were all ready for him to paint. The first one he painted using the bottom of a water bottle, the large lid of a fruit container from the produce department, and several sizes of paint brushes. I stripped him down to his diaper and put him on the tiled kitchen floor at his kid table. He had a riot.
The rest of the canvases he painted on a Saturday evening while his Dad and Papa were at an Indy car race, and my daughter and grandson came over for dinner. He was stripped to his diaper and the painting began. The second canvas was painted with crumpled up tissue paper.
The third canvas was painted with a cut up dish sponge.
The fourth canvas was painted with the lid of a paint bottle and a big paint brush.
The last canvas was my favorite, and painted with a foot massage ball. I rolled it in the paint and then we rolled it back and forth to each other over the canvas.
When he was done with his art work, I laid them all out to dry and then stenciled them with the letter stencils, and a very large black sharpie. I then painted the word snore on one talking bubble and ZZZs on the other bubble.
All were hung the next day and I am so happy with my bedroom artwork, and so is my grandson. He loves to look at them every time he is over.
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