I have to admit, I tend to shy away from "messy" art projects. It's not that I'm extraordinarily neat - it's more that I just don't want to have to clean one more thing! (I am really not fond of cleaning.)
But every once in awhile I take a leap of faith for the sake of my kiddos not being "art project unsocialized". And this one turned out so well. Not sure if I was more pleased with their projects or the fact that I stayed calm - even if I did chant, "it can all be cleaned up", a few times. And clean up didn't turn out to be that bad anyway - no disasters - yay!
We did Navajo Sand Painting. We looked at some images on the computer to get an idea for our paintings. The detail was amazing! So I really encouraged the kids to go simple with their drawings for our first time sand painting. It took
