Funday: Crayon Arts & Crafts

Remember Funday? I’m bringing it back! Funday is my way of getting back at Monday (the hardest day of the week, right?) Mondays are officially Fundays here in Holland. It’s when I’ll be sharing playful design inspiration for your home and family, or vintage movie reviews. What’s not to love about Mondays, now?

It’s Monday…back to the grind. Why not make it FUNday with some inspiration to make your home a little more fun?

There’s a pretty darn good chance that if you have kids or if you have kids who visit your home…you’ve got crayons. Scribbling out a picture with a single crayon is a rite of passage, signaling to the parents of a baby that their little one isn’t a helpless baby anymore. That act of artistic independence, I believe, is a developmental milestone, just as surely as the first tooth and first steps. If you happen to be a new parent, let me assure you that for a time, crayons may be the bane of your existence. Aside from occasionally being used to make a masterpiece fit for the front of grandma’s refrigerator, they will also be chewed up, spit out, forgotten in pockets to ruin a batch of clothes in the dryer, squashed into the carpet, left to melt on a car seat, and be the medium of choice for a life-sized mural on your freshly painted wall.

And then one day, sometime around 5th grade, another developmental milestone will be reached when that same child decides to quit using crayons in favor of something his/her classmates will consider a little less juvenile, like colored pencils. And pretty soon, the crayons get relegated to a forgotten box someplace in the recesses of your home, and before you know it you have a child that will be eligible for a driver’s license in less time that it took to potty train him/her. I only tell you this because it’s true. {Sniff, sniff, sob, sob.}

And at that point, you may find yourself waxing nostalic (pun totally intended) over crayons. You may even decide you want to do something to remember the days when crayons were a household staple. Or you might miss those chances to sit down and color with the kids and make some art of your own. Whatever the case may be, these examples of crayon art may be the cure.