Blog Family Drawing

by Anya

Monday, May 26, 2008

Smelly art...and God's art

This morning, Anya, Jenna and I decided to do some scratch & sniff watercolors.
How, you say, do you make watercolors that are fragrant? I'm so glad you asked...

You take various packs of unsweetened Kool-Aid, put them in small containers (we used a muffin tin), add an equal amount of water, mix well, and VOILA! Smelly paint! You use them just like watercolors. While we painted our fabulous objets d'art, the kitchen smelled very fruity. And now that they're dry, they not only look beautiful, they smell dang good when you scratch 'em!


Sorry we don't have smell-o-vision so you could experience them fully.

This evening, God got out his paint set as well...
With this next one, we could practically see the leprauchauns guarding the pot of gold - it was right there in the park, just three houses away!!

These pictures, of course, can't show how vivid it really was. We stepped outside and it made us all gasp! The colors were just eye-popping!

No scratch and sniff with the rainbow, though.

2 comments:

The Fox Den said...

I'm using the scratch & sniff thing that looks to fun! The rainbow is beautiful... of course you all have the best placed house in the county I'm convinced! Sending Nate to the monastary ASAP and picking up that CD. Thanks for the book!!

Jstar said...

Judging from Rich's expression in the photos, I wonder if he's not spending too much time sniffing the paint?

Very cute story - thanks for blogging!