Our Little Gallery

I love my girl's art and school papers but am not a huge fan of a cluttery refrigerator. So I found a cute way to display my little aspiring artist work. In their toy room I decided to designate a wall just for them so they can showcase their masterpieces. First we discovered magnetic paint at Home Depot. So they have a magnetic board on the wall. The magnetic paint dries to a dark gray/black color but then you can put one coat of another color if you do not like the the gray. Then for a border I glued ribbon with tacky glue or you could use elmers glue.


We were having trouble with the magnets holding the paper so I thought close pins would be able to hold the paper better since the magnet would be directly on the wall and not through the paper. It worked so much better. I painted the clothes pins with acrylic paint and then hot glue gunned a magnet that I purchased at Michael's.
I think gluing fabric on the clothes pins would be really cute as well.


My favorite out of this whole project was transforming skirt hangers
into hanging art displays. I bought the skirt hangers at Target, I got a 4 pack for $5. To piant them you have to sand them down a little or the paint will not stick as well. Then I painted them with acrylic paint and voila! I also want to stencil their names on the wood but another day :)

Artists for the day

Today we had fun painting. The girls used their hands and got really messy so it was fun! I bought some canvases at Michaels, they were 2 for $7.99 and then I used a 40% coupon so it was a good deal! We just used acrylic paint and those are on sale right now for .49 a bottle. So this was an inexpensive and fun way to spend the afternoon. The great thing is they could paint over them and make a new creation.





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