DIY Family Wall Art on Canvas

Well, our kitchen extension is nearly completed and slowly but surely our little house is feeling like our very own home. To brighten up the very white kitchen we chose, we used a rainy summer holiday afternoon to create our very own DIY Family Wall Art on canvas, something to add colour to a white wall but also something to help the kiddos feel more involved in the house renovations.

I wanted them to create something shared on a canvas, I thought it would be a nice sentiment to being a family and all that! I thought about drawing something together, like ‘our house’ or ‘our favourite holiday’ but in the end I thought it would be more interesting to see what they came up with themselves, to paint individually but bring it together somehow.  But because there is no way in the world that our little people would sit nicely around one canvas and paint until their heart’s were content without arguing (it would literally be ‘bye-bye brand new white kitchen’ if I’d contemplated that) I divided up one canvas into four boxes and asked them to paint their box individually. This meant it still had the desired look of one, shared artwork and was a piece of DIY Family Wall Art but without the arguments! The only problem with this is that they quizz everyone who comes over to our house to establish whose ‘art-box’ is the best?! *Groan!* Anyone else’s children make a competition out of every-little-thing?

But they had a lot of fun and I think it will be a lovely thing to look back on when they are all big and grown up. Even Archie had little go and added his own mini marks to the shared family wall art. I wonder if we will be able to tell anything of their personalities from their drawings in the future?

For those that couldn’t wait to know who painted which square – Elodie’s is top left, Archie’s (with a little help) is top right. Bottom left is Orla and bottom right is Finlay. Hope you like it!