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Filed Under: DIY AND TUTORIALS, REAL LIFE

DIY : Father’s Day Wall Art

Yesterday we had a wonderful day celebrating dad, well morning. Dad had to work in the afternoon, but we had a great time making the time we had with him, all about him. I love to make things by hand, especially gifts, and Father’s Day was no different. The kids and I painted him a picture, and since I took pictures along the way I thought it would be a great little post to share.

This is an easy way of making kids art, art gallery worthy..or at least our version of an art gallery. dadsdayart

1. We bought a blank canvas from a local art store, a big giant one for high impact. I also bought vinyl repost-able letters and pasted them on to spell out ‘With All Our Hearts” {for obvious reasons}. I had initially planned to cut letters out of paper, use tacky rubber cement to stick them to the canvas but I found these letters at the store {saved me like an hour of work}

2. We picked out our acrylic paint colors and brushes.

3. Since we were painting indoors I cut open a few garbage bags and taped them to the floor, for easy clean up.

4. Hold your breathe because there is probably gonna be paint everywhere.

5. I let him paint away, he is learning how to paint ‘Up and Down’. After each color we went over it with a wide brush to smooth things out.

6. Then we peeled off the letters.

And volia, the perfect piece of art made with love by Dad’s Loves. fathers day gift, how to paint art for your home with kids, kids artwork

 

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June 20, 2011     |     written by Brandy     |     55 Comments

Comments

  1. andrea says

    June 20, 2011 at 12:13 pm

    this looks SO awesome brandy!!

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  2. Ivelisse says

    June 20, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    oh my goodness, brandy!! this looks amazing!!! love it, so smart and creative! <3

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  3. MCC says

    June 20, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    I love it, Brandy! What a great idea!

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  4. Baby Shopaholic says

    June 20, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    Great Idea! Piece looks beautiful. Can’t wait to see the family style!

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  5. Wendy says

    June 20, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    Beautiful! What a lovely gift.

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  6. Alyssa says

    June 20, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    Umm hello? This is totally something I would buy in a gallery. Amazing!

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  7. shannonmakesstuffup says

    June 20, 2011 at 4:12 pm

    Love this! Will definitely have to try this one out ourselves…

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  8. christa says

    June 20, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    What an amazing idea! Such a great gift and it can hang in your house forever! I bet your hubs LOVED it! Hmm…maybe a late Father’s Day gift is in order…

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  9. michelle says

    June 20, 2011 at 7:49 pm

    such a great idea!! love this!!

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  10. ingrid says

    June 20, 2011 at 11:17 pm

    Fabulous!
    thanks for sharing such a great idea.

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  11. Amber says

    June 21, 2011 at 4:12 am

    Wow! I love this idea. So creative!

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  12. justine says

    June 23, 2011 at 5:50 pm

    this is one of the sweetest, personal father’s day gift:)
    beautiful!

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  13. justine | lovemaki says

    June 23, 2011 at 5:50 pm

    this is one of the sweetest and personal father’s day gift i’ve seen:)
    beautiful!

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  14. Noelle says

    July 6, 2011 at 2:15 pm

    This is so awesome, so cool!

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  15. heather says

    July 15, 2011 at 10:01 am

    Awesome idea.

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  16. Jennifer says

    July 15, 2011 at 11:42 am

    This is awesome and could be changed up with so many different sayings. (found on Pinterest)

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  17. Kim says

    July 18, 2011 at 8:33 pm

    That’s such a sweet idea! It looks really amazing too. I’d totally hang that in my house.

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  18. Jenni Carr says

    July 20, 2011 at 12:10 am

    What store did you get the vinyl letters from?

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    • BabyBlackbird says

      July 21, 2011 at 9:44 am

      I got them from Deserres a local craft store. They were in the wall sticker section.:)

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    • Juliana says

      April 9, 2015 at 2:27 pm

      You can get them at walmart !:)

      Reply
  19. Katie says

    July 20, 2011 at 2:14 pm

    Love what you did here. I did some similar craft with my little girl about a year ago, just using a different phrase. Such fun to see what these little artists come up with!

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    • BabyBlackbird says

      July 21, 2011 at 9:43 am

      SO cute!! I like the finger painting idea!

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  20. Milleda says

    August 11, 2011 at 8:47 am

    did this…turned out great!!

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  21. IneS. says

    August 24, 2011 at 1:50 pm

    What a great idea- found your blogpost via Pinterest! Great thing, that! Even for the small ones! I LIKE!

    Greetings, IneS.

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  22. susy says

    October 30, 2011 at 11:10 pm

    gorgeous.

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  23. ann says

    October 31, 2011 at 11:42 am

    I love this! That is so beautiful

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  24. Nicole says

    February 7, 2012 at 3:47 pm

    Making this tonight, with a dog rescue themed message on it. Thanks for the great idea. I went to Michaels, and couldn’t find the repostable vinyl, so I simply bought larger alphabet stickers. Hoping I have no issues with that. ♥

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    • BabyBlackbird says

      February 7, 2012 at 2:52 pm

      They should work great!

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  25. Nicole says

    February 9, 2012 at 5:11 pm

    I wish I could post a picture here of the one I did a couple days ago.. I LOVE it. I am so glad I found your pin on pinterest ♥

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  26. mindy says

    February 9, 2012 at 5:32 pm

    i just made something similar for my husband with my 18 month old. thanks for the idea!!

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  27. Holly says

    March 19, 2012 at 6:15 pm

    Where did you get the stickers? I have been to Michaels and a local art store and they don’t carry vinyl stickers or do I just use any alphabet sticker?

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    • BabyBlackbird says

      March 20, 2012 at 10:36 am

      Hi! The letters I bought were similar to these: http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/stick-on-lett…
      If you live in the states I try: Hobby Lobby, or if in Canada: Deserres will have them. Any alphabet letters will work, as long as you are able to peel them off after.

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  28. katie says

    April 1, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    WOW! LOVE IT!!!

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  29. Miss Mommy says

    April 23, 2012 at 10:38 am

    Beautiful! I think I’m going to try this today using painters’ tape (which I already have at home) and the kids’ names. Can’t wait to see how it works!

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  30. @darielacruz says

    May 10, 2012 at 4:52 pm

    I came across your beautiful idea in Pinterest long time go and I finally did something similar with my kids, I posted it here: http://www.mamitalks.com/2012/05/diy-art-piece-ma… and linked to this post. Thanks so much for sharing! It’s really neat, I want to do more!!

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    • BabyBlackbird says

      May 13, 2012 at 7:29 pm

      Oh so cute!!

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  31. Kristan says

    June 13, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    My two cents… I too couldn’t find vinyl letters at our craft store here in Cali. Turns out you reaaaaaaaally need vinyl. Otherwise the paint sticks and they tear apart as you peel them off. I found vinyl ones at the office supply store. Second you need thick letters. I thought I’d be cute with fancy swirly letters… No good! Big block letters … Awesome!! So we did two rounds… One with non-vinyl letters = disaster… With vinyl block letters = awesome!!!

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    • crystal says

      June 14, 2012 at 1:24 pm

      thanks for this post!!!

      Reply
  32. Dani says

    June 19, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    This picture, which I found on where else but Pinterest, inspired my son’s father’s day gift! After reading the accompanying post – and browsing your blog, I LOVE it! You do a wonderful job!

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  33. Dayna says

    August 31, 2012 at 10:30 am

    I just made one this week and credited you on my blog (http://groundedwife.blogspot.com/2012/08/custom-quote-wall-art.html) Thanks for the inspiration!!!

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  34. Emily says

    January 26, 2013 at 11:53 pm

    how big is that canvas?

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    • Heart and Habit says

      January 28, 2013 at 10:52 am

      It was appx. 20" X 28" i believe.

      Reply
  35. Julie Foster says

    May 7, 2014 at 1:08 am

    Ok seriously beautiful! I love the idea and the outcome 🙂 It looks like something i would purchase and it’s so much better being made by little ones, and since my hubby is not a Pinterest man I will be doing this, thank you!

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  36. Sherri says

    May 9, 2014 at 9:07 pm

    That was very special, I will have to try this with my kids. Thanks for sharing

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  37. C. Dotzko says

    June 8, 2014 at 7:51 am

    It turned out beautifully! I’ll be trying this today with my two year old! Wish us luck!

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  38. fathers day quotes says

    June 11, 2014 at 4:42 pm

    thanks great article!

    Reply
  39. Anna Saario says

    July 4, 2014 at 5:42 am

    That is just beautiful. Did you think of it on your own?
    Wow, way to go, Crabtrees!

    Reply
  40. meg808 says

    September 6, 2014 at 3:34 am

    Stunning. I am impressed.

    Reply
  41. Lacy says

    September 28, 2014 at 6:37 pm

    Thank you so much for Sharing!!!! I just did this with my 2 year old son & we had a blast!! I used my cameo silhouette machine to cut out my letters & some birds sitting on a twig!! It turned out super cute!!!!

    Reply
  42. Jainam says

    October 8, 2014 at 9:02 am

    Great piece of art I would say. I’ll try to create my own and sell on our website! 😀

    Reply

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