Family Art Night

I read about Family Art Night about a year ago in Amanda Soule's book The Creative Family. The idea is such a good one--a gathering of the whole family to participate in a creative process. For us, the best time and night seems to be Sunday after dinner. We are filled from a weekend spent together with friends and family, and we are a tad bit anxious about the days to come--a seemingly good creative cocktail. Last week, we each drew a picture to be hung up in the new baby's room. This week, we made a banner entitled, "A Day at the Beach" depicting the morning we spent at the so VERY Jersey shore. There areairplanes and beefed-up life guards, knitting needles and pregnant mamas falling down on our piece of work. Norah's watercolored imaginings, Harvey's wandering crayolas and Brian's sketchy sketches--all of them make me smile.