I have had hard time getting to and remembering to do art with my kids. Frequently, we just get to the academic subjects and sometimes that in itself is difficult. But I do want to do art. I believe that we were meant to create and creating beautiful things is important. With that in mind, I have started having Fridays as art day.
Our first project was a water color resist that I found here. I joined in on this one and discovered that I didn’t have much patience for drawing all the little things that I wanted to draw, especially since you couldn’t really see where you drew. 
Our next project, I found here. Melted crayon firworks.
These came out really neat and both my kids hung theirs in their rooms. I have to admit that melting the crayons with a lighter was a little scary.
Then, one Friday I was busy so I tried to get my kids to do Ed Emberly’s Fingerprint drawing.
My older kids loved it when they were young, but for some reason, my younger kids were not so interested.
Then last week, we did nature journaling. We invited our homeschool group, so we had several other families. We pulled out our guide books and had fun identifying and drawing what we saw.
Friday art has turned into a time during the school week when we really have fun. Now, I need to go find some other ideas.
Good bye summer. We have new plans now. We painted over the canvas with several coats of paint. I love this grass green. I have been pondering these words from Micah recently.
