Guarding angel

It is very comfortable for my son to know: some angels are taking care of him all the time. These angels are perfect guarding angels, have eyes like stars, so we can see their eyes in the sky.The first panic moment for my son was when the weather was foggy and he couldn't see any stars. 'Who will guard me during the night?' - he cried.

That was the moment when i started to make some little guarding angels that were hanged up at different points of the room until they found their place on our christmas tree (finally).

I used 3 wooden pearl, one of 1,6 mm and two smaller, a piece of golden string (30 cm), sticky glue and a piece of golden paper.

I cutted out a bit more than a quater of a circle of the golden paper. I made a tapered phyramid of it and glued it. I splited the string and i made a knot at the midpoint of the splited lenght.

I pulled it throught at the paper pyramid and i pulled throught the biger wooden pearl. too. This was the head and the rest of the string was the hook of the figure (above the head).

I sallowed the two little pearls on each stings (there were two of it after it had been splited) and i made knots at the end.
I drawed eyes and smiling mouths on their faces. They are the manifestation of our guarding angels.

Painting - from the begining

My son adores paints, brushes, papers (of different colours) so it was obvious to try them at the age of one.
Kids like mixing colours so i used tempera paints (the base colours, not more : red, blue, yellow) and different papers of different sizes. Pour some of the paints into plastic plates and prepare a kerchife made of textil (a useless, small shirt can be perfect too) and water. First you have to show how it works so paint lines or simple circles of one colour on the paper than give a brush to the kid. Importaint to explain all the time what you are doing and why to make the children understand what he sould do with the unknown things.
(Look, these are paints and we are going to paint a nice circle on the white paper. Which colour wold you like? Red? That is nice! Look, i put the brush first into the water, just a bit, than into the red paint. Look, i can also make circles in the paint. Than i put the brush onto the paper - look it's red colour on the paper and i'm making a nice circle.)
First time you should guide the tiny hands with yours but as time goes by (months) the moves will be so sure that there will be no need of help.
At first you should try handpainting, as well. The first big picture i did with my son was a picture of santa. I used 6 papers of the same size. 3 of them were the sky so my son painted them blue (with hands!) 2 were christmas tree, so all the paper were green (from top to the bottom) and the last one was santa itself with red handpaint on the paper. I helped with a black colour to draw the eyes and the stocks of the trees and i glued the papers into one huge picture (with cello tape).
With older kids you can make a picture of an angel or santa claus.