Painting with melted crayons: My Preschooler’s Self-Portrait

painting crayon

Our kids love to draw and have literally hundreds and hundreds of crayons over here, many of them mere shards.  We’ve melted the crayons to create “new” crayons, but today I had a new “plan” for our leftovers.  Several months ago I saw a post by Suzy’s Sitcom where she melted crayons and then painted [...]

Playing with Paint: Weekly Activities Round-up

paint ideas for creative kids

Playing with paints is a favorite activity at the Quirky Kid household.  Just this afternoon we had our paint pens out creating more colorful clothespins (never have enough of them).  Here are some of the recent paint activities that we have enjoyed replicating through the It’s Playtime linky.  Each Wednesday afternoon we co-host a linky [...]

Making a Mess: Preschoolers Painting with Balls

marble painting

Do your kids enjoy making a mess?  I know that mine do!  We got a really fun book in the mail from Penguin books, Mess: The Manual of Accidents and Mistakes, by Keri Smith.  This is such a fun book filled with activities and ideas of ways to make art from messes, or rather to [...]