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Tag archive for ‘painting’

Watercolor Painting In the Waldorf Style
Watercolor Painting In the Waldorf Style

Editor’s Note: If you missed Robin’s review of Canadian author Wayson Choy’s fabulous novel All That Matters, you can read it HERE. This afternoon, we have Waldorf educator Rebecca Watkin back on site with a look at the Waldorf method of watercolor painting. Here she is:
A Painting Verse
The sunlight shines into each day
And sends the [...]

Kids Food Crafts – Painting with Jello
Kids Food Crafts – Painting with Jello

It has been so crazy dreary around the Comox Valley the last couple of weeks that we have been super dug in at the craft table and looking for ways to combine all sorts of things like food and paper into good fun.
Jello isn’t something we regularly eat around here. But, it is super cool [...]

Do-It-Yourself Snail Shells
Do-It-Yourself Snail Shells

Tis’ the season of gooey creatures.
Spring rains are heaven in the universe of snails, slugs and other varieties of slimy forest friends. We are personally working on attaining “groupie” status in terms of L-O-V-I-N-G banana slugs and our daughter’s newest discovery – the forest snail.
She totally digs beach snails. A day on the tidal flats [...]

Family Craft – Waldorf-Inspired Watercolors
Family Craft – Waldorf-Inspired Watercolors

The gig is up.
Our kiddo is a painting maniac.
Seriously, the older she gets the uglier public painting becomes. Just the mere mention of tempera paints and paper sends her into an uncontrollable frenzy during which she paints every inch of her body – and anyone standing within swiping distance, gets a gooey paintbrush on all [...]

Melissa & Doug Spillproof Paint Cups
Melissa & Doug Spillproof Paint Cups

Our daughter is the ringleader of artistic chaos.
When it comes to painting, she is totally in love. So much so that every inch of herself, anyone near her and everything within 10 yards of the painting location has, in the past, been guaranteed to be turned a lovely shade of tempera.
I swear that our Tuesday-morning [...]

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