Art Class at the Museum

On Sunday, we checked out a free art class for kids that's offered by The Toledo Museum of Art.

The classes are offered every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Sunday is from noon-5:30 and each week has specific topic.
This week's topic was Textiles, but as soon as we arrived, the kids were offered the opportunity to paint first. They both really enjoyed this!

I'm impressed with Sophie's patience and interest in painting and I'm excited to try more of this at home with her... as soon as I work up the courage to paint with an 18 month old. ;)

Will very briefly worked with the various "textile" materials: pieces and scraps of felt, flannel, satin, yarn, sequins, etc. to cut and glue and create onto a "canvas" with some help from me.

This was much less interesting for him and you may be able to see a glimpse of the attached play room in the background... That's pretty much all Will was thinking about at this point. We played for awhile and then headed home for Craig & Kelly's birthday dinner.

Sophie's masterpiece is on the left. You can see that they flipped her paper upside down on the easel so that she could paint on the other "half". Will's started off looking reminiscent of a rainbow and then just sort of "blended". :)

And this is all we came up with for the textile project.

I think the kids are a little young yet for organized art work. Painting is one thing because it's pretty open-ended and free. But I doubt we'll go back soon for the specific project classes until they're a little older or until they show more interest in art and following directions. Haha. ;)