madelyn at sarah's birthday party

madelyn has been counting down the days until sarah's birthday. not only does madelyn love sarah and parties, but miss m. was going to be there! miss m. is madelyn's art teacher at school. like madelyn, sarah loves art and was having an "art" birthday party.

the girls were all given canvases and spent most of the party painting (and washing their hands). first, they had to paint their canvases a solid color. then they were given a tutorial in different types of tools and effects they could use for the background. they were allowed to test them all on the plastic tablecloth, but that quickly fell into finger painting.

so they played a "game" of "don't touch the walls" on their way to the utility sink in the laundry room.

madelyn chose a 'scrapper' for her background technique. but then she was done and waiting around so she added a few 'stamps' as a boarder. and then she was standing around again and decided to add two circles to the middle of the canvas. this was a common theme around the room. neatly stamped hearts were converted into large blobs of solid paint. toothbrush splatter was getting on the walls (i was running wet paper towels to try and minimize the damage to their living room). miss m. started to panic a little that this was "getting away from her" so back to the sink for clean hands before enjoying some pizza and juice.

all of the tables they owned were in use so the girls had to picnic. they were a little nervous about the pizza on their light colored carpet (in addition to the acrylic paint everywhere) but the damage was very minimal.

the girls then added their initial - or initials or their whole name...

such a great idea for a party. and the girls had a blast. love.