Art class

Once a month we get together with my friend, Morgan, and her son, Shaw, and switch off being in charge of an art project.  It has turned out to be a very fun activity and one that I look forward to each month and I know the boys enjoy a lot!

The first month I planned the project and of course, we did tye dye shirts!  If you know me, you know I love tye dye of any kind.  I thought it would be fun for the boys to wear a shirt that they had made themselves.  I was right- Ben and Sam wear theirs at least once a week.

One example of their handy work:

The next project, Morgan was in charge.  Now, let me say I am very lucky to have Morgan as my partner in this because she is a true artist!  She found this awesome project where you glue crayons to a canvas and then use a blow dryer to melt them.  We needed some pictures for our bathroom and these fit in perfectly:

This month I was in charge again and we actually did two small projects.   I had found some wooden trains at a garage sale so I thought it would be fun to let the boys paint them.  All three like trains!

Here are the little artists at work:

Sam is VERY meticulous when it come to painting.  He made sure every inch of that train was covered in paint and then some.  I mean, look at those duck lips, you can tell he is concentrating really hard!

I think Shaw got him Mom's artsy gene!

The other project we did was make caramel apples.  Ok, if you ever try this project with a 2-yr-old, BEWARE!  The caramel gets really hard and difficult for little teeth to chew.  Ben and Sam ended up just eating off all the marshmallows, candy corn, and M&M's. 

The three Picasso's!