JDaniel and I went to Creating Artists for Tomorrow ( an art center for children) with the Mom Later Than Sooner Group we belong to. He had the best time painting with and on all kinds of mediums. Yes, he even painted on a tree.
I was hoping to send some of his work to my mom and mother-in-law for Mother’s Day. We read several books about creating Mother’s Day presents. Right now the pictures are on the fridge where JDaniel hung them to admire. I may have to sneak two down while he sleeps and slip them into envelopes.
Here are some pictures of our painting adventure. I have also placed a list of the books we read below.
Here is some of his work:
He painted this by rolling golf balls through paint.
Two of these were made by dropping water on the paper and spraying the paper with colored water. The dots on the upper right were made using paint stamps and salt.Here are the books we read:
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This great book called My Mom by Anthony Browne is about how a mom can do anything. This mom can sing, make anything grow, and make her child happy when she is sad. The floral design in the mom’s shirt appears in every illustration.
In Mother May I? by Lynn Plourde the little girl tries to help mom for Mother’s Day and ends up making a mess. All her mom really wants is a hug.
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I see some serious talent in his future! So cute, thanks for stopping by.
What a fun day! I love that they have interactive art activites. Arts education is being sorely tested right now, it’s wonderful to see communities taking up the cause. And honestly, the one he did with the golf balls looks as good as alot of things I’ve seen in galleries lately 🙂 Good for him, glad he enjoyed it. Kathy
GOLF BALLS THROUGH PAINT? I Love it. We are SO doing this tomorrow~!
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I’m always so impressed with people who take their kids to actually do something creative. I truly need to work on that. His art was actually quite fun, I enjoyed it.
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Love the golf ball idea–a picture worth framing! Happy Mother’s Day!
Wow great paintings. It’s wonderful that you are exposing your son to this medium. You never know what will become of it.
I LOVE KID ART!!! Awesomeness!!! Our frige always has Bella Art, lol!
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These pictures are great. Hope he doesn’t miss the ones you put in the mail. Eek!
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What a fun way to spend the day, and it looks like you’ve got a little artist on your hands. 🙂 Have a great day!
I love to create art with my little students and they have so much fun! I have not read any of those books but they are now on my to-read list! Thanks for sharing these special moments, maybe next fall you and Daniel can go to a pumpkin patch!
All I want is a hug, too! Very cute – I especially like the golf ball painting.
What a fun day & great blog. I’ll be popping back to have another read through!
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That sounds like so much fun! We’ve done marble painting before and even hot wheels cars tracks with paint. I love having the art gallery up too!
What a fun day you had . those paintings look real good.He may be getting into an artist. Great p post
What a nice and creative outing! Those pictures look great. We read many Mother’s Day books, but none on your list. The last one sounds hilarious.
What beautiful paintings he created! I am impressed! What a great idea! My daughter is only 21 months, I don’t think she’s ready yet because she eats anything she touches.
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Your visit to the art center looks like so much fun! Thanks for sharing your son’s artwork!
What a great artist he is! Thanks for sharing his work with us.
Look at him! 😉
Art is so much fun at any age.
what wonderful painting techniques…how fun for you guys!
I love the idea of painting on trees. We could have so much fun with that!
A budding artist? Thanks for sharing a cute post with us…
great books suggestions, TFS 😀
love that he painted the tree 😀
Aw how cool! I love watching kids come up with all kinds of
neat art – I love the golf ball piece! And those books are so sweet – the snake story had me smiling from ear to ear!
Those look like good books for this week!
What a talented little guy!!! I posted some pictures of projects we made for mother’s day…lol.
I have got to check out the last book. I have never read that one. Great p post for alphabet Thursday!!!
Those activities looked like fun I love it. We’ll have to check out some of the books you listed.
What a fun Alphabe-Thursday post about a wonderful day!
I am intriqued with the painting on trees. Do you know what kind of paint they used? That is very clever!
And your sons artwork. What a clever, adorable little fellow he is.
Thank you for this heart-warming post on our little journey through Alphabe-Thursday’s letter “P”!
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There couldn’t be a better mothers’ day gift for a grandma than a fresh painting…..I hope I get lucky and find one waiting for me on Sunday.
How cute is that golf ball painting! I really miss these moments with my kids now they are older…these are beautiful memories for you to treasure forever!
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Natasha.
We have the book Mother May I – one of my kids favorites! The pictures are great works of art in my opinion!!
love all of the techniques they used with the kids, especially the off the page technique of tree painting … very cool!
What beautiful artwork and I love the name of your mother’s group and wished I would have belonged to something like that as I was later than sooner…started at almost 33. Joni
I love those paintings! They are fantastic. I hope his art grows right along with him.
They came out so good!!! You should frame them, they would make great wall art 🙂
I can’t wait until my little guy is old enough to try these.
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What a wonderful way to create art together. I wish I had stopped by sooner, because I would have encouraged you to link up with I lovely mom’s site: “Simply Feather’s Paint With Me Thursday” http://simplyfeather.blogspot.com/2010/05/paint-with-me-black-and-white.html . A Story Plus Art looks really fun too. The books look wonderful. Have you read The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola or Five Minutes’ Peace by Jill Murphy? Have a lovely day.
Wow those look great, I love all the book selections too! Thank you for linking up to stART :0)
They all turned out so pretty and what neat ideas for painting.
It looks like a fabulous art center! How fun to get messy and and play in the paints and leave the mess there! Thanks for joining in last week, tomorrow you’ll be one of our featured participants!
This is great! I saw you featured on the Show and Tell at ABC 123.
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That looks like so much fun! My significant other is a painter – we appreciate this post so much! We love the tree idea. What a fun Mother’s Day. 🙂