Boy Art

Sometimes I find it challenging to get my son excited about doing art projects. This has been somewhat disappointing to me since I consider doing an art project with him the perfect way to spend an afternoon at home. Recently I realized that maybe it isn't that he isn't interested in art, just not the type of projects I was suggesting. So I have tried to be more creative and find projects that appeal to the sensibilities of a 4-year-old boy. Here are the results:

This project started because my son was taking pom-poms and cutting them up. I said that it looked like fur and maybe we could use it to make an animal or something. I think he came up with the idea to make a monster. I drew the outline of the body and colored the face. My son added the foam horns, claws and googly eyes.

The next project we did was painting with unusual objects. Cousin N was here for this one. We bought the plastic cars at Target for $1.00 each. Most of the other objects are from our kitchen.

The first two paintings are done with just the cars and the second two are done with all the tools.

I think they had just as much fun cleaning up as they did painting!

I have also found that my son considers some of his building projects to be art. His preschool teacher said that she always took pictures of her son's creations to make it easier for him to take them apart, so I have adopted the habit as well.