now that Clara’s old sufficient to hold a small paint brush, get down with some Mod Podge, as well as rock out with a nail gun (just kidding about that last one), I believed doing the occasional job with her would be a great time. as well as I’m not gonna lie, this job is still fun without a youngster (and can certainly be finished with adult-made art or even some incredible decorative gift wrap or wallpaper), so let’s slap a “no kids necessary” label on this baby.

As for the how, very first my reliable assistant as well as I perused a few of the art that she made at institution (she likes to paint) to select the one that she liked the best. Her champion was the one closest to the video camera below (with yellow as well as orange as well as red in it).

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Then we grabbed one of those extremely lightweight wood craft boxes that we chosen up at JoAnn (I believe they’re likewise at Michaels). Clara viewed intently while I laid the art under the box lid with both the art as well as the lid dealing with down as well as cut the corners of the art like this, so they satisfied up with the corner of the lid:

This enabled me to wrap the painting around the box as if I was gift wrapping it, as well as I utilized some decorative washi tape (it was a gift, so I’m scared I’m not sure where it’s from, although I’ve seen similar stuff at Target) to hold it down on the inside of the lid.

I repeated this process on each side of the box as Clara viewed attentively from her chair nearby.

Then I ran a few of the tape around the side of the lid, just since I liked exactly how it looked with Clara’s painting so much, however if you like seeing the art wrap around the lid instead of adding a tape border, you can leave it as-is.

Oh as well as you’ll notice in the background of that photo that Clara as well as I had gotten down to work as well as painted the bottom of the box red. She liked assisting keeping that step, as well as it took a few coats (with drying time in between) so we went off as well as played with a few other things as well as got dressed as well as all that great stuff in between coats.

After all the paint was dry, Clara likewise delighted in assisting me slap some Mod Podge around the top of the box, to seal her painting as well as safeguard it for the long haul.

So to anybody who likes doing jobs with their kid, there are really three steps that Clara enjoyed. The very first one of program was making the art in the very first place, the second one was assisting me paint the base of the box, as well as the third one was applying some Mod Podge to the top of the box to seal things – so I just did the harder stuff like cutting the paper as well as taping it into location on the lid.

I believe the completed product is quite cute, as well as I like exactly how fun it was to deal with with Clara. What youngster crafts have you men been doing lately? Don’t you like discovering methods to integrate their art into your house so you can delight in it instead of storing it away in some box that you never open? Clara’s instructor states when they paint in class she stops as well as steps back as well as looks at the paper as well as then steps ahead as well as paints a bit much more as well as steps back as well as looks at it once again as well as then dives back in. Is that adorable or what? She’s my bit Van Gogh.

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