After dealing with sick kids all last week and over the weekend, this week just has to be better for me! Fingers crossed that my kids will spend less time in front of the TV and more time in their playroom having fun (and not whining and crying – I can’t take much more)!
Speaking of their playroom, I’m so excited to show you some art that I recently made some to help liven the place up a bit. This “PLAY” art used leftover canvases, scrapbook paper I had on hand, and materials from Dollar Tree. It was easy and inexpensive, which are necessary attributes of any project of mine!
I made the letter “P” with graphite and yellow scrapbook paper that I Mod Podged to the canvas. I then hot glued some toy cars to the “P” to make it look like a road.
Next, I made the letter “L” by hot gluing crayons to the canvas. I alternated the direction of each crayon and did not trim or cut any of them. That probably would have led to a nicer looking letter, but I didn’t have the time or patience for that.
For the letter “A,” I purchased a 500 piece puzzle from Dollar Tree and whipped out the hot glue gun. I drew an “A” on the canvas with pencil and glued all the pieces within the letter outline. The pieces were really small so this was pretty tedious. It also led to a lot of hot glued fingers. I think it was worth it in the end, however.
Finally, I made the “Y” by outlining the letter in pencil on my canvas, and then hot gluing metallic pipe cleaners and pom poms within the outline. This is my least favorite of all the letters, but it will do.
My daughter was really excited to see this art go up in the playroom, so that made me happy. And my son has finally stopped trying to scale the toy shelves to get the cars off of the letter “P,” so that has also made me happy.
– Bre
This is very cool and super creative!
I like this. What a good idea!
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So cute B! I love it!
Visiting from Manic Monday. I think your play room art is great! So very creative. I struggle with decorating our play room/office. I just haven’t had much inspiration plus the constant organizational challenge in there.
This is so creative!! Love the use of crayons for art!!
Wow! This is so cute! I love that you used different materials for each letter.
Too Cute, such a fun idea!
OMG! This is such a cute idea. I especially love the way you used puzzle pieces for the A. So creative! Pinning!
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This is very cute, and creative! Great job!
This is so so cute! So creative and colorful!
This is so cute! I’m really looking forward to doing a little redecorating in my son’s room and this would be such a cute wall art project for that room!
This adorable, Bre. Pinning some of these ideas.
I love the puzzle letter. So neat
I love this, such a perfectly fun wall hanging! I especially love the letter P, those cars and road is really cute!
how clever is this bre! and super fun & cute as well♥ i like P the most & might be trying this one of these days…☺
thanks for sharing this over at The DIY’ers, huggies♥
rea
ADORABLE! This is just too cute! Thanks so much for linking up at Thursday STYLE!
This space is darling! Loving that you showed us pottery barn kids looking art with a couple of dollar store supplies! Kudos! I found you through Just a girl blog, im following you through social media and am leaving an open invitation to follow back!
Lovelovelove this Playroom Art Work! I’m a new follower and can’t wait to see what other awesome project you will come up with next!
Hi Bre! I’m back to let you know that your PLAY project is on my top three favorite at The DIY’ers! ♥
Come join the fun & share your latest projects with us again, The DIY’ers party is now live.
huggies♥
rea
Such creativity!! I love how you used so many different materials, too. Thanks so much for link up at our link it or lump it party!
Hi Bre! I LOVE this project! I featured it on my guest co-host spot with Do Tell Tuesdays today! Come check it out this week’s party when you have time! http://www.mypapercraze.wordpress.com Thanks! Becky @ My Paper Craze
What a fun and cute idea! Thanks for linking it up to Thursday S.T.Y.L.E. We hope to see you at the party again this week!
Hey! Your project was featured at Link’n Blogs this week. Come party again!
http://iputabirdonit.blogspot.com/2014/02/linkn-blogs-14.html
xo
Daniela
Put A Bird On It
Wow, that is so cute and creative! I just love it. It’s detailed and minimal at the same time. Totally my style.
Happy SITS Day!
That is the cutest idea ever. IT is very creative. Oftentimes, as an interior designer, we overlook simple and creative things like this that our clients know how to do. I’ve learned to incorporate their arts into their design.
Wonderful!
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KG
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What a really cool idea…and it doesn’t look to hard either! Great share…thanks 🙂
Very cute idea! Great post! I’m visiting from the Sits Girls.
Oh my goodness! Is this ever adorable! I love it! So creative.
Happy SITS Day!
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I really like this art! It looks very simple, but is quite eye catching! Happy SITS day!
Hi, visiting you via The SITS Girls, that is really cute and very clever!
I love this – do you mind sharing what size canvases those are? 11×14?