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         Making Art with ChildrenA blog from the Art Studio at The Eric Carle Museum
Posts Tagged ‘homemade’Homemade Valentines Mass Appeal TV clipWednesday, February 8th, 2012Crafty Cards for Valentine’s Day: wwlp.com Here’s the video from my appearance on WWLP’s Mass Appeal yesterday. I hope it inspires artmaking in your home or classroom! You can find the Valentine Card templates I reference in my segment here. Many thanks to Seth Stutman for hosting the segment and to the rest of the staff at Mass Appeal for having The Carle on the show. It was lots of fun! Homemade Gift Idea: Silly Paint BrushesWednesday, December 14th, 2011
We’ve purchased fun painting tools from art suppliers before. Many are made of such basic components, I figured we could make some with stuff we already had on hand.
One of the Studio’s volunteers, Sarah, made and tested a batch of brushes with tempera paint. Here’s what she did:
Starting with a 6″ x 6″ piece of flexible craft foam, she folded it in half and then made perpendicular cuts along the folded edge. Then she rolled the foam tightly around a pencil and used a rubber band to secure it.
To make this brush she made cuts along the open edge of the folded foam and then rolled the pencil inside. It would be fun to try varying the space between the cuts to make wider or narrower fringe. A couple of our brushes slid on the pencil if the foam wasn’t rolled tightly enough. That was solved with a dab of hot glue down in the middle or re-rolling the foam. I suppose you could also put a bead of hot glue on the end of the pencil before rolling it in the foam to keep it in place. I think theses paintbrushes would make a fun stocking stuffer or package topper. I could also see a “bouquet” of brushes (use green pencils!) in a vase making a great gift for a teacher.
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