Kids Art

I have two beautiful kids who make a lot of art for me and I love it. I figure why not use it in the house to decorate with. The kids love seeing their stuff out and I love the bright colors and the fact that my kids made something for me. :)

How we did this:

First I picked up a 3 pack of 8 by 10 flat canvas for the kids to paint. The canvas pack ran about $3.17 at Walmart. After that I let the kids paint away using the sponge brushes and finger paint that we already had on hand. When the kids were happy with how their pictures looked we let them sit for an hour or so until they were dry.

I knew that I wanted to hang them under the entry way mirror but wasn't sure how I was going to do it since they were flat. Then I decided I would hang them with ribbon and make them feel a little more formal. I had black ribbon leftover from a halloween project and knew it would match the mirror perfectly so I tacky glued the ribbon on the backs of the boards. I just cut what I felt was a reasonable amount of ribbon and glued the ends to the back to create a loop. Nothing techincal about it I just eyeballed it. I had the tacky glue on hand already from other projects but hot glue or even super glue would have worked for this.

After the ribbon was attached I wasn't sure what I was going to use to hang them up with. I didn't want to buy any fancy picture hooks or anything so I went through my misc junk hardward to see what I could come up with. I took 3 brown pegs (that use to be the little slidder legs to a bookshelf that we no longer had) and pushed them into the wall like pushpins. Very easy. I still wasn't happy with how that looked though and thought they needed something more. I decided to glue on some faux gemstones (leftover from a picture frame project) and used the tacky glue again to make them stick to the posts.

After letting them dry I hung my pictures and I was done. I love how it turned out and the best part is that it only cost $3.17 for the whole little project.