General Conference Quote Board

I've written several posts in the past about engaging your children during General Conference and preparing them beforehand.  About a month ago a friend of mine, Kensie of Kensie M Photography, shared a way that she keeps the messages from conference hanging around the house--literally.  

Honestly, this one of the quicker projects I've done in a while!    First, I gathered a good collection of quotes from this past General Conference and pinned them.  You can find them all on my Conference Board on Pinterest.  Next, I saved them and cropped them to be 6 x 8.  (My frame was 36 x 24 so this allowed me to have 18 total quotes in my frame.)  After printing them on cardstock I arranged them--and then rearranged a few times--until I was satisfied.  I then flipped the quotes over into the frame and taped them together with masking tape.  

I've seen my boys reading them as they head downstairs and it makes my heart happy to know that they are continuing to internalize the wonderful messages we have been taught.  I love to have a visual reminder of those words hanging in my home. 

And just for you I'm sharing a printable I created with one of my favorite quotes.  Enjoy!

Art Lab for Kids

My Mr. A loves to draw.  Thankfully he's finally learning that bodies and walls are not the places to color!  At least once a day he's asking for his drawing supplies and he'll sit there color me endless pictures. 

I recently had the chance to review the book "Art Lab for Kids".



Let me tell you, this book was amazing!  Such great projects and inspiration to do other things as well.  Perhaps my favorite part of the book was the instructions at the beginning on how to get started.  It states that "each person's work should be wholly his or her own.  Don't work on someone else's art."  I love it--mostly because W likes to be the boss and tries to "help" his brothers instead of worrying about his own work.  Another idea that it suggests is to "promote fearlessness".  I love that!

At first I thought I would just use it with the older boys . . . but it really could be adapted to any little artist!

We picked a few different projects to draw from.  It was fun to work with new-to-us mediums like oil pastels.  I also loved that they featured artists that also used each medium.

And doing fun projects like scribble drawings.

For each lab there was a list of materials needed, a "go further" section which gave you ideas of where you might go artistically based on the project, a "thinking" section to get you thinking about your art before you started and then a step-by-step outline for the lab. 

It really was a well-laid out book and I am looking forward to many more art projects inspired by "Art Lab For Kids."