I have more toddler art than I know what to do with. To be honest, some of it winds up in the trash. But there are those few pieces that one particular pint-sized artist is very proud of and I was not sure exactly how I should display them. I did incorporate one in our built-in shelf wall by Mod Podging it to a canvas...
I love it but I don't need one on every shelf.
After moving his crib out of the room and moving in a low chair (that folds out into a small bed) I had some wall space just begging for some fun...
Pay no attention to the unmade bed and pile of blankets next to the chair. Its real life, people.
I saw an idea on another blog. So off to St Vinny's and Goodwill I went, looking for some frames cool enough to house some masterpieces.
Here were 3 of them that I found...
I took them apart, wiped them down, washed the glass and went out to find the right masterpieces for each of them. You could certainly paint them but I decided to leave them as is because there was another frame in the room in a similar hue.
But wouldn't you know it, I didn't have one big enough for my favorite frame, the oval one. So I put a certain someone to work...
By the way, one of your old t-shirts works great for a painting shirt.
I painted that lame picture that was in the frame white and let it dry first.
He was a little too obsessed with the brown which he referred to as "chocolate." It was pretty hard to steer him away from so much "chocolate."
And because I pick my battles, this is what the paint now looks like.
And with one final dramatic stroke of the brush, he declared, "Its done!"
And after letting it dry for a few hours, I assembled the pieces and up they went...
The other wall, just for funsies.
I can't help myself, I am a pattern and cover-every-square-inch-of-open-wall-space freak (thanks Mom!).
Happy Sunday Funday!
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