Paris Party: Art studio

The blank canvases were only about a dollar each, and I already owned way too much paint for someone who is not particularly artistic, so this activity was a bargain. We hung photos from a couple of art calendars on the wall behind the "studio" for inspiration (and when we realized they were a bit too complex to be inspiring to beginners also printed a few examples from the Internet that might seem more "do-able"--Mondrian, Kandinsky, Matisse). The only hitch was that some paintings weren't dry at the end of the party, and carrying them out to the car was quite a challenge. One child asked for a piece of paper so that he could make a checklist for what to put in his painting, and we found it later--he had followed it to a T. Adorable.