Showing posts with label DIY Pop Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY Pop Art. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Pop Art Portraits


Our trip to the International Pop exhibit at Philadelphia's Museum of Art last weekend prompted this super fun art project! We'll have more on our trip to the museum tomorrow, but in the meantime, head over to The Land of Nod's blog to make your own!

p.s. can you tell that Kane still has Jamaica and Bob Marley on his mind?

Friday, February 13, 2015

Weekend Makes

Yes, yes. I know it's Valentine's Day tomorrow. In case you haven't noticed, we have been in full-on valentines mode for weeks now. But, we also happen to have school off on Monday for another holiday: Presidents' Day. So if you're looking for something fun to do with the kiddos and are over hearts on Monday, here's a set of presidential weekend makes!


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Friday, January 16, 2015

Weekend Makes

We love to celebrate all kinds of holidays in our house -- from the standard seasonal favorites to the super random to the absolutely made up. We just like to party. So I happen to know that this coming Monday, January 19th is National Popcorn Day! We also happen to LOVE popcorn, so we need no prompting to celebrate this particular festive day. But just in case, here's what's popping at Weekend Makes!


1 / My good friend Suzanne designed these awesome printable templates for our ol' blog. Still love 'em. And you can still download the printable for free!

2 / Fabulous recipes for these yummy treats from the sweet to the more refined.

3 / My kiddos would love to come up with fun flavors of seasoning.

4 / Make these colorful baked cotton balls and then POP 'EM!

5 / So, this painting project has nothing to do with popcorn. But we love this DIY Pop Art from Red Ted Art. 

Monday, October 6, 2014

DIY Sun Print Pop Art


As you might have noticed in our Final Summer Bucket List Update, one of our favorite art projects is making sun prints with materials we collect while out and about hiking, geocaching, and at the beach. This summer, Cam and I were working on some feather prints when I spied a pile of "guys" Kane had left nearby (we all refer to the endless number of toy policeman, ninjas, knights, cowboys, etc. generically as "guys") and thought they might be fun to try. Crisp, pop-arty images from the toys' silhouettes emerged -- I LOVED the result! And thought I'd share this super easy way to make some quick art for your kiddo's room.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Pop Life: Father's Day Pop Art

Hope everyone had a wonderful Father's Day yesterday!  We were up early and out of the house -- breakfast at IHOP so daddy could sleep in.  We picked up some coffee and a breakfast sandwich for him and snuck back into the house to deliver him grub and presents.  Along with some photo cufflinks of the two of us, we made him some pop art for his office!  We have both always loved Andy Warhol's Colors -- who doesn't love a pink cow?  So we decided to make a pop art painting of each of us.  First, mom showed us some other Warhol paintings online.  And we flipped through our book again, too.  Then mom let us each pick four colors for our paintings.  She had already printed out four black and white copies of a picture of each of us and separated our heads from our bodies -- we thought that was hysterical.

Mom marked a canvas into four even sections and then we painted each one a different color.  She was surprised that we mostly stayed within the lines (and found it helped a lot if she painted an outline for us and put a dot of paint in the middle of the rectangle).  Then we painted each body and head piece a different color.  When it all dried, mom glued the bodies onto the canvas.  Teeeee daaaa - daddy's own pop art.  If you are wary of using paint, bleeding tissue paper also works nicely (just have your mom and dad cut out the tissue paper roughly in the shape of the head and body parts) -- we have one of Vegas like that in our house.

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