Watercolor : hands on : as we grow

Birch Tree Art & Help Reforest for Arbor Day

Since it’s too cold still in Iowa to plant a tree for Arbor Day, we’re making tree art by painting a tree!

Also for Arbor Day, Murphy’s Oil Soap is sponsoring this post and doing a fun repinning contest on Pinterest! The details

There’s something so prestigious about art on a piece of canvas.

I think it really makes the kids think they’re making something really special. Last year they made a piece of art on canvas with the frozen paints

Henry got so into this art project. I was really impressed with him. There are quite a few art processes that he really focused in on.

We made Easter Eggs with watercolor resist over both crayons and tape.

I started with drawing a couple