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While we had the paints out from our teacher gift tags, the kids spied the big paper and wanted to make big paintings! From small format to big, there’s nothing children love better than changing things up.
For these paintings you will need large format watercolor paper
First, the kids each drew their tree with a pencil, then they painted. I love how they each have their own style. And I love how we will be able to keep and hang these paintings year after year!
Read more about how these were made and see photos of all three finished products on Melanie’s blog You Are My Fave! And while you’re there, browse around at all her other inspirational posts. Her blog is just lovely.
This weekend is our big move (three streets over…but it might as well be to Mars I feel so ambivalent and unprepared), so send good thoughts!
xo, Bar
Good luck with your move! It will all be well! When my husband and I were young parents, we moved from a small town to a larger city. Our neighbors were Richard and Annette, an older couple who adopted us as family. Annette told us the story of their move to the house next door. They moved on Christmas eve….all day long neighbors and members of their Parrish church shuttled between the old and new house and in the snow! At 10:00 that night her husband drove slowly down the street with the last load…their fully decorated tree secured in back of the pick- up truck. Their exhausted children were sleeping and they brought the tree in through the French doors and into the living room, plugged in the lights. The tree was beautiful in its new home. Christmas morning was one long adventure of opening presents, eating and exploring the new house! I hope your move is not As chaotic and that happiness and joy grow abundantly as you settle in!
what a great story!! thank you so much, Betty. we have moved on Christmas once before and there is a certain adrenaline that goes with it that makes it all special in the end. we are settling in nicely in our new home and our tree is up! have a wonderful Christmas! xo Bar