kids crafts: Father's Day Art

When she is in the mood, Ana loves to finger paint, or even paint with her large brush.

Sometimes, she will drag her brush across the paper and point to it and exclaim "Amma, look, horse!" as if she had really painted a horse :-)

I like the vivid colors of the tempera paints we have, and the milder hues of the finger-painting paints.

I was wondering what to do for Father's Day... and Ana gave me the start!

Last weekend, she had finished painting a piece - usually, that's when she asks me to unroll some more paper so she can paint on blank paper again... While unrolling some more for her, I decided to tear the piece she had just finished and turn it into "art" for Appa.

Unfortunately I didn't take a picture of her painting this particular piece, but, I did manage to take one of her painting whimsically at another time...

I simply mounted Ana's art on a mat I had, added a loop to hang it from. And then, gave a few stickers to Ana to paste it on the mat just for added effect :-)

Of course, Ana cannot write yet, so, I added some words and a stamp and...

Voila! Daddy has a nice little Father's Day gift made by his baby girl to proudly hang on his office wall!