My month in a view: November 2022

🇬🇧 What a month! Building my own studio, painting pumpkins, volunteering for refugees and organising creative activities, celebrating our Dutch holidays Sint Maarten and Sinterklaas, finishing my family photo yearbooks, volunteering kids crafts in our library, finally painting again and new assignments for parrot portraits… I can say […]

Creative activities for refugees

🇬🇧 I’ve already spent a few wonderful days crafting with the refugees in our village! As soon as I can, I visit and take several creative activities with me. I gave all children their own portfolio (a file with empty sheets) in which they can draw and craft […]

Exhibition Art class 6+ coming up!

🇬🇧 Mark your calender: on December 19th there will be an exhibition from Art class 6+. The kids will show you what they made during their classes and there will be a surprise auction! I’ll be there too and I can’t wait! 🇳🇱 Noteer in je agenda: op […]

Stamping ‘Sinterklaas’ with toilet rolls

🇬🇧 What I used:– Printable Sint & Piet– Black and silver paint– Toilet rolls– Markers for coloring Print out the coloring pages and give Sint a nice beard and Piet curly hair! I used silver paint for Sinterklaas because I printed on white paper. But you can also […]

“See the moon shining through the trees”

🇬🇧 “See the moon shining through the trees,” is a Dutch sentence from a Sinterklaas song. What I used:– Black paper– Paint in blue tones– Gold paint– A twig from my garden– These houses (see my free printables) of black and yellow paper– Glue Paint the background blue, […]

Exhibition Art class 9+ coming up!

🇬🇧 Mark your calender: on December 9th there will be an exhibition from Art class 9+. The kids will show you what they made during their classes and there will be a surprise auction! I’ll be there too and I can’t wait! 🇳🇱 Noteer in je agenda: op […]

Painting pumpkins

🇬🇧 We decided to do things differently this year and we painted our pumpkins for the first time!  I painted little ghosts with my thumb and my daughter painted her pumpkin with brushes and her fingers as well. I drew little faces with a black Posca marker and […]

Refugee crisis emergency shelter

🇬🇧 This has nothing to do with art (not yet, just wait) but this week we got a refugee crisis emergency shelter in our town. I decided to take a look at the walk-in they organised.  The place is sober, but neat. They did their best to make […]

Teaming up!

🇬🇧 I will be teaming up with Rianne @vankliedertotkunst for many creative projects in the near future. More info coming soon. I’m so excited! 🎨 🇳🇱 Ik ga de komende tijd voor veel creatieve projecten samenwerken met Rianne @vankliedertotkunst. Binnenkort meer informatie. Ik heb er zo’n zin in! 🎨

3 easy Halloween crafts

🇬🇧 I wanted to share 3 easy Halloween crafts with you to create with your kids. I made a ghost, a pumpkin and an X-ray of our hands! 🙂 What I used for the ghost: This ghost which you can find in my free printables Scissors What I […]