{"id":339,"date":"2008-11-12T10:23:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T18:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2008-11-12T14:26:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T22:26:44","slug":"how-to-have-an-art-easel-when-you-dont-have-unlimited-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"How to have an art easel when you don’t have unlimited space…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bayus loves to paint, like really really loves to paint.\u00a0 Every time we are at a children’s museum he is at an art easel.\u00a0 Every time we go to the open art studio at the local Tacoma Art Museum, he gets comfortable with an art easel.\u00a0 I’ve been battling the desire to get him a painting easel with the practicality of not wanting to clutter up our space with more stuff.\u00a0 He’d want it out all the time and I wouldn’t, nor would I want to drag it in and out of a storage location several times a day.<\/p>\n

As an answer to my desire for less clutter and my desire to let him have creative open space I came up with our own painting area- and he LOVES it!\u00a0 I went to a local office supply and bought 4 suction cup clips (there is a painting above the one showed that is hanging to dry- we used scotch tape until I bought the clips so technically this step is optional).\u00a0 I used a suction cup shower organizer (purchased at a local hardware store I think, I’ve had it for a few years as I used to use it with our large aqua doodle mat on the opposite side of this glass door) to hold 3 jelly jars of paint (lids can be purchased at your local grocer, do not fill paint jars just an inch will do for most three year olds)- instant painting ‘easel’!<\/p>\n

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I challenge you to not look at your sliding glass door as just a door but instead a great easy to clean wall \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 We also use ours with the dry erase markers during ‘school’ time and like I said previously we had a aqua doodle mat hanging on it from suction cup hooks.\u00a0 What do you do with your glass door?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bayus loves to paint, like really really loves to paint.\u00a0 Every time we are at a children’s museum he is at an art easel.\u00a0 Every time we go to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}