Inspired Art

Where has the summer gone? Today was the last day for me to spend with all three kids before camps and going back to work invade… and school starts just around the corner! So, I wanted to share our favorite art project from the summer!

Back in May, I read this post by one of my favorite bloggers, Sarah, from Little Bins for Little Hands. Right around the same time, my partners over at Clear Path Paper came out with their Mixed Packs of bond paper! Their bond weight paper is PERFECT for kiddos cutting to create art- because sometimes cardstock is just labor intensive for little hands.

So, I got with Andrew and told him my idea… and once again, Clear Path came thru and made it happen! Their black cardstock is perfect to attach to, and the Retro Colors Mixed Pack just screams summer! My kiddos loved researching Yayoi Kusama, and had never encountered her particular style of art. We just kept enjoying more and more images from our Google search! I set the Retro Colors pack in front of the kids and told them to “think summer and triangles with polka dots.”

We first grabbed paper and started cutting triangles of all sizes. Both the older kids immediately had a picture in their head that they wanted to make. Elle didn’t really understand the concept, but she had fun cutting and gluing paper. (So I recommed this project for 4th grade and up!) The older two really took the idea and ran with their own concepts, but we didn’t tell each other what we were trying to make… and the three of us enjoyed guessing where the others were going with our art!

After our glue had fully dried, we went back and painted the polka dots by using the back side of paint brushes of various sizes, and a wide variety of paints we had in the art closet. They then enjoyed hanging them on our ever-changing art wall in their bedroom hallway, so they can enjoy seeing them for a few months til we hang up new art!

We had so much fun with it, that we want to use the same pack of paper to make FALL inspired scenes over Labor Day weekend! Becca already has ideas for a basket full of apples, and hay bales!

Want to make your own art with your kids or students? Be sure to shop Clear Path Paper for all of your paper projects!!! And if you need help finding a specific paper for a project, let me know and I can help you find the perfect Clear Path Paper for your project!