I have been very quiet on the blog front lately. Enjoying the warm weather and spending the holidays with my girls, relaxing, playing and just being present. It's been blissful.
School starts back in a few weeks and we will be back into our routine before we know it.
Although we were resting and relaxing we still managed to do a little low maintenance art.
This is a great way to show your children's drawings without going through countless pieces of paper (great for the environment) and trying to find places to store them.
This is all you need.
- a cheap frame. This one is from Kmart. $5 I think. I chose 8x10 but the size depends on where you will display it.
- a white piece of card, large enough to fit inside the frame. I had to cut this one down a fraction.
- Your choice of items to draw with. I had three different varieties to try. Washable markers and window crayons that I picked up from Spotlight, and Chalk pens from Birchalls. The chalk pens are pretty easy to find usually from newsagents or office supply stores.
An incredibly bad shot of the frame here but I think you get the gist. Very simple. Just insert the white card into the frame and you are ready to get drawing. Children can draw on the glass and wipe off when finished.
Each of the drawing pens we used had a different effect.
The washable markers were my first choice.
The colours looked so happy in the packet and I was excited for the girls to try them out.
The result was nice. Not very vibrant but the colours were still visible and the range of colours in the packet was a huge selling point for me.
The chalk pens were great to work with. Nice and chunky for little hands and the colours showed up beautifully on the glass. We only had two colours to work with but that was fine with Big Sister. Two was all she needed for a little self love! These were not so great for Peanut. To release the chalk you need to press quite firmly and she didn't have the patience to wait for that.
Lastly we tried the window crayons and these were by far the favourites with both girls. Easy enough for little hands to control and incredibly smooth to use on the glass. These were the best to get a result out of Peanut as she is still just getting the hang of drawing so not used to pressing very hard. These gave her a nice bright result without having to have too much control over the crayon.
This turned out quite well and I loved having ready-to-display artwork. Minimal effort, maximum impact. Perfect for lazy Summer holiday art.
The best part was how easy it was to wipe the glass clean when they wanted to draw something new.
Just remember to take a picture first if you want to keep a memento!
School starts back in a few weeks and we will be back into our routine before we know it.
Although we were resting and relaxing we still managed to do a little low maintenance art.
This is a great way to show your children's drawings without going through countless pieces of paper (great for the environment) and trying to find places to store them.
This is all you need.
- a cheap frame. This one is from Kmart. $5 I think. I chose 8x10 but the size depends on where you will display it.
- a white piece of card, large enough to fit inside the frame. I had to cut this one down a fraction.
- Your choice of items to draw with. I had three different varieties to try. Washable markers and window crayons that I picked up from Spotlight, and Chalk pens from Birchalls. The chalk pens are pretty easy to find usually from newsagents or office supply stores.
Each of the drawing pens we used had a different effect.
The washable markers were my first choice.
The colours looked so happy in the packet and I was excited for the girls to try them out.
The result was nice. Not very vibrant but the colours were still visible and the range of colours in the packet was a huge selling point for me.
The chalk pens were great to work with. Nice and chunky for little hands and the colours showed up beautifully on the glass. We only had two colours to work with but that was fine with Big Sister. Two was all she needed for a little self love! These were not so great for Peanut. To release the chalk you need to press quite firmly and she didn't have the patience to wait for that.
Lastly we tried the window crayons and these were by far the favourites with both girls. Easy enough for little hands to control and incredibly smooth to use on the glass. These were the best to get a result out of Peanut as she is still just getting the hang of drawing so not used to pressing very hard. These gave her a nice bright result without having to have too much control over the crayon.
This turned out quite well and I loved having ready-to-display artwork. Minimal effort, maximum impact. Perfect for lazy Summer holiday art.
The best part was how easy it was to wipe the glass clean when they wanted to draw something new.
Just remember to take a picture first if you want to keep a memento!