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Lunch Bag Art
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Before we left for the museum trip that wasn’t on Monday, I packed each kid a snack. To make the snack feel extra special, I added a little doodle here, a little doodle there, tied it off with friendship bracelets (that I finally finished) and voila! Super cute, right?
Now, before you go saying something about being an overachieving mom, let me introduce you to some amazing dads who have elevated the lunch bag doodle to an art form. Apparently, there’s a whole underground lunch bag art world. Who knew?!
Lunch Bag Art
Lunch Bag Artist
Lunch Sack Poetry (He types original poetry on the bags. For real!)
Lunch Bag Dad
AND there’s even a book!
Now for those of us less, ahem, artistically inclined, I found stickers and printable options. I can see it now, a whole lunch room filled with cleverly decorated brown bag lunches…
Clockwise from top left
Knot & Bow | Martha Stewart | Cottage Hill | Sissy Print
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Super Cool Heart Shirt
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Tease me if you must, but I’m going to come right out and say it—I’m a sucker for hearts and Valentine’s Day. I’m also a sucker for making things. In an effort to combine my loves, and because I was inspired by Ali Henrie’s awesome tutorial + Liz’s freezer paper love, today I made my own V-day shirt.
It took me about 40 minutes from start to finish. Thirty of those minutes was spent watching paint dry. Ooh! Exciting! (more…)
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Scenes from the Weekend
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Dave snapping pics at theTreasure Map Play Date
This weekend we held a collaborative play date with (cool) progeny, aMuse Toys, and Childhood List. The idea, inspired by BIG Kids Magazine, was to celebrate the treasures of Baltimore by making a big ol’ treasure map. Heather came up with the genius plan, and provided snacks and giveaways for the kids; Claudia provided art materials, space and take-home gifts, her ridiculously talented staff painted a backdrop for the photo booth (aww yeah, MICA students!); Katie produced a brilliant map foundation; Dave took pictures and I made some silly props. We had an insanely good time. (more…)
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Treasures of Baltimore
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
What's on our Baltimore treasure map? Why Fifi, food trucks, Fort McHenry, Walters Art Museum, Charm City Cakes, and the harbor of course
A conversation I had last week went something like this…
Heather: “I have this idea for getting a whole gaggle of kids together to make a treasure map, integrating the whole big idea of collaboration. You want in?” (more…)
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Teacher Gifts | The Winter Break Edition
Monday, December 19th, 2011
Enjoy a Hot Cocoa Break
This year’s holiday gift is a mash up of a teacher gift we’ve made before and the monogram mug tutorial on Design Mom. Inside each mug is a bag of homemade marshmallows (thanks for the tutorial Smitten Kitchen!), a brick of Mexican chocolate and two small peppermint sticks.
For this project you’ll need: (more…)
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Super Cool Holiday Gift for Spies: Hollow Book
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Long time readers know we’re lovers of spy games and stuff. For newbies to Classic Play, here’s a link to get you caught up: Impromptu Spy Games for when you’re shopping for a car, furniture, suit or other excruciatingly boring thing. (more…)
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Trimming the Tree
Monday, December 5th, 2011
Remember the Advent bags I made? I had grand ideas of hanging them on a string. Then I realized, we didn’t have a wall large enough for all those bags. Instead, I punched a hole in the top of each one, rang a string through them and voila! Ornaments for the tree. What do you think? (more…)
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A Gallery Update
Monday, November 28th, 2011
Neighborhood | Colton, age 6
Hi everyone! Welcome back. I hope you all had a long, marvelous weekend enjoying meals, family time, holiday preparations and the like.
I wanted to kick off this week with some notes about the gallery. People from 22 states and seven countries have visited the Art Gallery. Yipee! I put up some new work, so please take a moment to check it out. I know the artists would love it if you did.
We’re still taking submissions! If your child would like to submit something he or she made, send me a photo, the title of the piece, your child’s first name (or initials), age and I’ll put it up.
I created this gallery for my little one after he said it would be a cool idea for kids to have a space to show their art. But this note from a parent, whose shy son has been bullied in the past, melted my heart:
“He brought everyone in my house to the computer, puffed himself up like a peacock and said ‘yup, that’s mine!’ You have made my little guy very proud…his mama too…”
How cool is that?!
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