Ava has been wanting to decorate her own shoes ever since we starting reading this book (Shoe La La) that she got for her birthday. So I finally located some cheap plain white shoes at Walmart ($6!) and bought some fabric paint for her. I thought this would be a great project for when Darren went back to work and I was left alone with 2 kids and I was right!
Getting ready to paint!
And the finished product...Ava let me do one shoe (for the most part) and she did the other. We actually did this over 2 days so that the first layer could dry before we used the puffy paint. I think we will definitely do this again as she had so much fun and now wears these shoes almost every day. Even though they are kind of tacky, I still love them and think they look super cute on her. This totally reminds me of when I was growing up as my mom would let me paint t-shirts and cut off my old jeans, and paint them to make some hideous looking jean shorts...but I always loved them even if looking back at the photos of them make me cringe now....I mean the things I painted were just plain ugly!
I highly recommend this art project for anyone whose kid likes to paint!
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