what the kids made dad…

Yesterday we had a wonderful day celebrating dad, well morning. Dad had to work in the afternoon, but we had a great time making the time we had with him, all about him. I love to make things by hand, especially gifts, and Father’s Day was no different. The kids and I painted him a picture, and since I took pictures along the way I thought it would be a great little post to share.

This is an easy way of making kids art, art gallery worthy..or at least our version of an art gallery.

1. We bought a blank canvas from a local art store, a big giant one for high impact. I also bought vinyl repost-able letters and pasted them on to spell out ‘With All Our Hearts” {for obvious reasons}. I had initially planned to cut letters out of paper, use tacky rubber cement to stick them to the canvas but I found these letters at the store {saved me like a hour of work}

2. We picked out our acrylic paint colors and brushes.

3. Since we were painting indoors I cut open a few garbage bags and taped them to the floor, for easy clean up.

4. Add a SUPER excited, cute toddler in his undies {baby girl was snoozing but she got a few brush strokes in when she woke}

5. I let him paint away, he is learning how to paint ‘Up and Down’. After each color we went over it with a wide brush to smooth things out.

6. Then we peeled off the letters.

And volia, the perfect piece of art made with love by Dad’s Loves.

We took a couple family shots yesterday, very quickly but I think I will put them together and do our very first Family Style post tomorrow.

xoxo

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