Art. Room.

I am highly visual.

And watching my house degrade, day after day, into deeper chaos can be, um, challenging (read: crazy-making).

A few evenings ago I took note of our downward spiral and decided to set up an art table for the children.  Reign in some chaos and make some unschooling magic happen.

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The play table had been seriously underutilized.  It was coated in dust and contained some stray bits of paper, a basket of pompoms that Sage made over Easter and promptly forgot about, and a puzzle. (Have I mentioned the dust?) Now is it pure loveliness (ignore the missing outlet cover please), complete with a shelf for art supplies and personalized chairs.

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The kids have been creating art everyday. They were already seriously crafters, but somehow the transitions between meals and art caused a glitch in our program and sometimes it just wasn't worht anybody's effort. 

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 Last night I set out watercolors for them before bed, and when they woke the set to work on creating art. It was fabulous.

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Aside from the art table, I spent that evening organizing our playroom as well. We have nice toys. Lots. Of. Them. So rearranged, and loaded a couple of laundry baskets with neglected treasures and hauled them off to the toy-graveyard in the basement.

(Sorry for the image below. I don't mean to scare you.)

This…

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Became this:

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Aaahhh… So much better.  I think I can breathe again.

One thought on “Art. Room.

  1. Mary Jo, Five Green Acres says:

    Hee hee. That was my Sunday afternoon Making Sanity activity too. Reorganized the toy bins – purged some plastic junk, then set up a bin for each day of the week, with a few toys in each bin. So far, so good. The paring down of options has worked very well so far!

    Today’s Making Sanity activity: reintroduce myself to my sewing machine. We’ll see how much sanity I can find.

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