The torrential rain never came and instead the afternoon was sunny but not oppressively hot. I had some seamless paper that had gotten dirty so I decided to use it up. First I required a photo from the boys:
Then I let them paint like crazy.
I thought they would get about 30 minutes of entertainment out of this, but instead they painted and chatted for two hours. I helped them paint quite a bit as well and wow is that fun. I missed out taking all those nerd classes in high school instead of art classes!
By the end of the afternoon, they decided to work on painting together. Sibling moments like this make all the fights bearable.
At the end of the day, we had two four foot high pieces of artwork the boys insisted we needed to display in the house. I had no idea how to break their hearts on that one. Around 10:30PM an insane thunderstorm rolled through, killing power to the whole neighborhood and completely soaking their artwork. Problem solved?
9 comments:
Love how bright and cheery these photos are!
This is the kind of post that just makes me so happy that you blog.
You DO rock the single mom thing. Very well done. love that activity. Would have loved to see the paintings in your house, though =)
You are super brave to let them paint on the fence!
Awesome activity!!! Remind me to do that in 4 years.
Hey! Is it just me or does the picture that Alex and Nate worked on together (brilliantly, I might add) look a little like Mr. Snuffleupagus?
this is what childhood memories are made of. I think you rock at the mom thing
You should frame the photos of them with their artwork, that way you get to keep the memory AND remember the artwork! LOVE!
this is a super fun idea, I really do love it! Way to rock it!
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