Little Jo loves to draw me pictures for my office. Little Jo loves to draw me LOTS of pictures for my office. I could make my own wallpaper out of her artwork if I wanted to do so. I needed a solution for her to express her creativity while still having space on my work walls for other things, or heaven forbid, just bare wall space. A combination of ideas accumulated into this end solution. I will spare you the odd workings of my mind that had me arriving at this point, but what I ended up with is a re-usable and creative drawing surface that she really loves!
First, you will need to get a 12×12 scrapbook paper frame.
This is the hard step here — put the paper into the frame.
Then pull out some dry erase markers
Now let your kid use the markers to draw a picture directly on the glass. Since I chose a horse background, Little Jo drew a barn, a sun, a bird and a sheep. I will let you decide which one is which in the picture below.
Because we used dry erase markers, she can wipe the glass clean and start over as many times as she wants. And she loved the idea of changing out the background paper for the season or the holiday, too. She did make me promise I would procure some better dry erase markers
We thought it might be fun to do this with Colorforms as well. I’ll need to get a set and try them out!
10 comments so far:
This is a great idea, thanks for sharing! I just hope that the kiddies don’t start drawing on all the pictures in the house. lol
what a fun idea. Love it. Thanks so much.
Simple & fun!
Love the idea! I have a son who is always writing me notes and drawing me pictures. He would LOVE this.
FYI, in my experience Colorforms are no where near what they were when we were kids. I’ve gotten some for my boys and they don’t stick to the board at all. Perhaps it’d work better on the glass? But I was really disappointed. Colorforms were one of my favorite things when I was a girl.
That’s disappointing to hear, Sonya. Colorforms were one of my favorites as a kid. That and my Spirograph
This is a great idea. Such a great way to be creative.
I would like to personalize a dry erase board by painting on the surface- should I use fabric paint or an acrylic paint?
My guess is that acrylic paint would work better on a slick surface like a dry-erase board than fabric paint would. Just be sure to use a glossy paint so that if you accidentally get any dry-erase marker on the painted areas, you have a chance at it wiping off. If you use a flat paint, I think the marker ink would get absorbed into the paint.
This is a great idea, Jo! An unrelated project on another blog I saw yesterday used overhead projector markers and said they stayed on and came off better than the dry erase. I’m linking to this on my blog today. Love it!
Staci, I will have to try out the projector marker! Thanks for the tip and linking to us.