Every Child is an Artist

My breakfast room table turned into the boys' art studio yesterday. While I was working on a project for Henry's class, they got out the paper, glue, scissors, crayons, and markers.
And started creating.
If you look closely there is a smiley face on this paper.
And Henry was so proud of the way he shaded this paper by rubbing a crayon on it.
Henry's masterpiece.
It is a man with a bamboo fishing pole who just caught a HUGE catfish:)
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. Pablo Picasso

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Chalkboard Paint and Paper Flowers

This week is Teacher Appreciation Week.

To show my boys' teachers how much I appreciate them, I put together a little happy for them.

A chalkboard flower pot with some SUPER cute paper flowers

I started with a terra cotta pot, chalkboard paint, and contact paper.
I used strips of contact paper to make a square.
Then I painted the chalkboard paint inside the square.While the paint is drying, wrap some green paper around three pencils for each pot. Use hot glue or another kind of adhesive to get the paper to wrap around the pencils. Cut out some cute flowers {3 per pot} either with a Cricut or just using a pair of scissors.
Add a center circle to the flower and hot glue the flowers onto your stems.
Stick the flowers into your pot {I hot glued mine to make them more secure} and add paper grass around them.
Write the teacher's name with a piece of chalk.
Add in a SUPER cute saying and a few extra pieces of chalk.

And you have a great personalized Teacher Appreciation gift!