Giving Garden Painting Party

[sawdustus]

For the craft project for my granddaughters slightly delayed b'day party last Saturday, I cut 20 of the giving garden flowers (By Tom Kantos in the spring 2012 issue of SSWC) from 3/4 pine, sanded to 180 grit and edges rounded the edges with the mop sander. I put in about three hours total time. I provided the acrylic craft paints (from my stock); three packages of brushes and a package of divided styrofoam plates from the dollar store; and a large roll of paper towels. It kept all the kids busy, on and off, for better than two hours. My granddaughter did three of them since every time new kids showed up, she just had to show them how. Here are the results. Even some adults??? got in on the action.

george

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[tgiro]

A Great Idea!!

Fun & gets them into being creative.

[Sally]

Wonderful party activity!!

[Wood Dog]

What a great project George, bet they are already wondering what you will make for them next year.
Making memories that's what its all about. Love those Kodak moments.

[wood-n-things]

Wonderful Idea. Thanks for the pics.

[sawdustus]

They really did have a ball painting them. Paint everywhere, on the floor, the table cloths, the flowers, themselves, the walls. Fortunately, my daughter has set up the garage as a play, craft room and so some paint splatters, don't matter. As for next year...???????

george

[SteveK]

Having three grandkids (1.5 to 5) my first sound was a groan and next thought was "where'd the paint end up"

Looks like it worked out great. What a wonderful idea!

[Hawaiilad]

One of our daughters does the same thing with our Grandkids. They really have fun and talk about it for at least one week...at that age there are so many new things in their lives every day