Decorating Art Poject

Greetings blog heads =)

Today I want to share a quick, fun and easy art project anyone can do with the kids in their lives.

All you need is about five dollars and team work for this one. There are really only four things you have to have handy; a pack of multi-colored construction paper, a pair of safety scissors, a glue stick and thumb tacks. My mother would do this with me and my older sister when we were little and we enjoyed spending whole afternoons making them. What they are, are rings of contruction paper strips looped through one another creating a rainbow colored paper chain. We’d use them to decorate our room taping them to the walls or hanging them from our bunk bed.

The kids and I were snowed in on Monday. They canceled school for Kid too so we were just here hanging out at home. The house was so clean I really didn’t want them to go crazy pulling all of their toys out so I thought it’d be a great time for an art project. I drew lines down the multi-colored construction paper, about ten strips a sheet. I did that for about ten sheets and gave the cutting job to Kid. I asked the Jones to seperate the strips by color so we could be organized, he took lots of pride in this responsibility since he has finally got all of his color knowledge down packed. Once we had our strips together we created somewhat of an assembly line =)

I think it’s really important to make all of your kids feel special by giving them tasks assigned only to them. This makes them feel individually needed and kids love being needed; they love to help as long as you show them that you appreciate it and not that they’re like a little slave for you. 

So now, Jonah’s job became handing me the color we needed next. my job was sticking the glue on to the tips pf the strips and handing them over to Kid who would loop them through and stick em. We got a really long chain done in about an hour and then it was lunch time. The boys wanted to hang their rainbow paper chain from the ceiling so I hung it using four thumb tacks. When they saw the result they loved it and so did I, it’s a personal touch in their room that they can say they made themselves.

It’s never too early to teach your kids to decorate their space, to decorate and organize; two things my mom taught us at an early age as well. Decorating your space is a way to make home feel like home and I’ve always wanted that feeling for my kids too. I remember my barbie dolls sitting in rows on top of my dresser and my teddies and baby dolls that I loved sitting on my neatly done bed and there was always a big space in the center of my room, plenty of room to play. I hope you try this fun project sometime and put a smile on a kids face too! Have fun and please take pictures and share them with me if you do try it! I’d love to see different versions of this done and new ideas added if you have any =)

Here’s my kids room!

xoxo, Franky