Hailey's Creative Mind

Hailey is a very artistic kid. She loves to draw, paint, model clay and do crafts.  She has notebooks full of drawings, mostly people. She has a very creative imagination. Whenever she sees empty boxes, tissue rolls or Pringles containers, she tells me to keep them because she wants to design them.  She usually wraps them in paper and paints over it in different colors.  If it's a box, she usually wraps it like a gift box complete with ribbon. When one of us has a birthday, she would always think of a DIY project to give as a gift. It could be old socks or a disposable container which she decorates.

Here are a couple of her artworks:

 

 

These are some of her molded oven bake clay:

 

 

The last photo was her painting on canvas using acrylic paint.  She loves watching youtube tutorials and gets some of her ideas there. She watched a youtube video about painting on canvas and asked me to buy her the materials. She even wanted a sponge applicator which I could not find in the bookstore, so we just ended up buying different paint brushes.

While googling  for summer art classes near our area, I found a school offering a painting class for kids. Basically, they have a sample of a painting by a classic painter like Van Gogh then the kids try to copy the painting on their own canvas.  I thought Hailey would like it. i showed her pictures of the finished work of the kids, but she said she did not like the class. She said she does not want to be told what to draw or paint, she wants to do her own art. That is why we decided to just buy the materials and paint at home. She truly has a creative mind, a very good imagination.

Another thing she saw while we were in the mall was Color Me Mine. We were at Hobbes and Landes in BGC where she saw the Color Me Mine corner. She saw the display of pottery items to be painted and wanted to try it.  I told her we'll just try it in the Greenbelt branch.

The following Saturday, as promised, we went to Hobbes and Landes Greenbelt.  To start, you have to chose a pottery figure, like a mug, plate, coin bank, animal, etc. then chose five colors to be used in painting.  The price of the pottery piece depends on the design. The bigger the piece, the higher the price.  The small mug she chose was PhP 350.00 but there is an additional PhP 180.00 fee for the use of paint, glazing and baking of the item. There is a waiting time of at least three weeks before you can claim the final product.

Here she is contentedly painting her mug which she says is for me. She even painted "I love my mom" on it.

She's excited to get the final product and has been bugging me about it.  Hopefully, we'll be able to pass by Greenbelt this weekend to check if it is there already.  She actually wants to paint another     one but since it's quite expensive, I told her maybe next time. 😊