Lately, Bridget has really been interested in all kinds of art projects. She loves to draw (pens, pencils, crayons, markers, highlighters) and she LOVES to paint (watercolors, acrylic). I recently purchased some foam stickers for her – which she has really gotten in to.

We’ve also tried child scissors and glue sticks lately. She gets the concept, I think. But I think it will take a few more tries before she’ll be making a collage.

Here is one of her latest creations:

Last Year (2007), we tried all kinds of crazy art-related things.

We made crayons by melting some old broken ones.

We did some leaf rubbing’s with our funky new crayons.

We even made stamps out of potatoes. I apologize to all those who feel that this is a waste of perfectly good food. Truth be told it goes against all of my training at the Adele Dale Young Child Development Lab. I am sorry I am disappointing you. I believe that all children should experience potato stamps at some point in their lives. My daughter loved it.

So much in fact, that we tried it again just the other day.

Yes, I need to get tempra paint, instead of using the acrylic. Its on the list.

Trapped indoors during the dead of winter is a great time to experiment with art projects. Bridget has been interested in stamping lately (with my return address stamp), so maybe we’ll get some stamps and try that next. Or finger painting, not that paint doesn’t end up all over her fingers anyway. I’m open to other suggestions as well. If you have an idea, leave me a comment. The more the merrier.