Little Hands: Canvas Art

I love sentimental stuff involving the kids.  It seems like every day passes so fast, and before you know it, your little baby boy is five!  (Yes, that's me!)  Sometimes I forget to realize how little they really are, and that they're just going to keep getting bigger.

When Little Miss Princess was a newborn, we did a little project with her footprints in some baked clay-ish stuff and I look at it now like, "Wow!  Those feet have gotten big and chunky!" It hangs on the wall, so I see it daily and I love that!  I was at Michaels today, wandering around with a 40% off coupon (because, really, who wants to waste one of those??).  It's been awhile since I was in there, especially without kids, so I was taking my time.

I happened to end up back at the canvas section and noticed they were on sale, 40% off the regular price.  Then I noticed they had a four pack of small squares.  The wheels started turning a little.  I kept walking to see how much the paint was, because I only had pink at home and if I was going to do this, I wanted to do a color that would work in my home for years to come.  Black.  Genius.  The paint was on sale too.  Fabulous!!

  

And there we go.  I didn't have to buy the brush, thank goodness.  My total for the squares and paint was $12.  Not too bad since I only used 3 squares and can figure something else out for the last one...thinking about doing Little Miss Princess' footprint again, this time in pink and in paint!

I don't have any "in process" pictures because it was just the kids and I, and 3 kids, black paint and hands?  I'll hold off on the pictures.  I did get the water based stuff so it washed off easily.  Talker Man and Little Miss Princess did fabulous jobs.  Tiny Man, his got some serious smearing action.  I actually did his twice, I tried it on the extra piece too, but it was worse than the first.  I ran the canvas under some water and the paint washed right off since I did it immediately.  You can see a little bit of a ring, but I can live with that.

Finished art project for mommy's wall:

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Easy and CUTE!  Plus, since I used black, I'll be able to use it virtually anywhere I decide.  I'm going to put their names and the year on the backs so in 10 years I can remember whose was whose.  

Hope this gave you an idea for a keepsake project of your own!  You really can't beat the $12 price tag, and if you already have the paint, it would only be $9!  Love it!