Winter is Here

Brr. It's cold outside!You might be looking for a sweet winter art project to do with your children. This one is gooey, messy fun.

Make a Winter Snowperson to keep you company this season.

Start with some newspaper strips, Clementine natural glue, a handful of flour, and a bit of water. Make a thin paste (think pancake batter), and begin to dip and wrap the strips around balls of newspaper until you've got 3 balls, of various sizes. Let them dry.

Attach them together with skewers, or a hot glue gun. Paint them white, or lots of colors with Clementine natural paint.

Sprinkle with natural confetti or glitter, let dry.

Start embellishing. Add a jaunty hat, some button eyes, a dough nose, and some wooden bits for buttons. Add some arms made from outdoor twigs, and a broom if you like.

viola! your sweet winter friend.

Mod Fairy House

do you believe in magic and fairies? i do.

so does my friend audrey.

she made this incredible, mod fairy house using only natural materials; clementine glue, markers, glass beads, handmade paper, an inexpensive wooden picture frame, fabric and some unpainted wooden bobbles.

here are some of our materials.

first, she glued down the rugs.

she made a chair that she 'upholstered' with paper.

look at that curvy bed. i want one like that!

what a great fireplace!

she even decorated the tree!

ready to move in.

the artist, age 9