Sometimes on Friday I am at a little bit of a loss as to what the heck we are going to do. Sometimes I blog surf for a little while, sometimes I go stare at one of the, um, five(?!), (okay, so one of those is just paper…), places that I keep the kids art supplies, and hope for inspiration to strike, with various levels of desperation, depending on whether or not there are *already* hordes of 5 year olds and their siblings running amok and I still don’t have any ideas. And honestly some weeks I never get there, and no one cares, except possibly Ellie, who likes ritual and predictability.
This week we fell back on ‘what is in this box in the closet?’
Which was a large unopened bag of pompoms, pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks and stick on googly eyes. I threw in markers and glue guns for good measure, and said we were making monsters, or anything else you could think of.
We went through a stunning number of popsicle sticks, I mean, we’ve slowly been going through that box for YEARS, and then bang, the last half box was gone. I also thought it was interesting how many pompoms they could attach to the popsicle sticks just by wrapping them with pipe cleaners. Lots of wrapping and sticking and drawing and glueing, and out came lots and lots of monsters and some other curious frames and constructions. This turned out to be a very absorbing project for most of the 5yos, but not the younger kids.
Where do you get your art project ideas from when you are stumped?
