It’s Make your frustrating when I want to paint, squish, mess around, and do crafts with my son, but the apartment doesn’t have enough space for such activities.
Today I would like to tell you about our small but almost perfect painting place.
Make your own painting place at home
Why make such a fuss? Why cover up the apartment like that? It certainly looks very unsightly and chaotic to some people. Aren’t a table, chair, paper and a few pens enough these days? I came up with the idea of creating a painting space at home when I read Arno Stern’s book “How not to look at children’s pictures” *.
Letting your child do what he wants, free from praise and blame, so that he can devote himself entirely to his imagination and his thoughts, without anyone interfering, commenting, analyzing, questioning or even criticizing, that just sounded right to me. Why does everyone always ask: “What have you drawn there?”? Does what you have drawn always have to be
explained? Why not just start drawing?
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Sure. If my child wants to tell me something about his picture, I’m happy to listen. But if he doesn’t want to, then I respect that. Life is much freer when you don’t have to think about whether the cat you’ve drawn really looks like a cat in other people’s eyes. Or whether the nigeria mobile database person next to me is painting “better” or “worse” than me. And if I just want to paint squiggles, strokes, lines, circles, then it’s only because I wanted to.
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The desire to give our son a similar space grew ever greater. Over time, more and more ideas came to mind. I drew sketches and in the evenings I worked with my husband on how we could best design the painting space. But money held us back.
A question of money?
Do you have to have a lot of money to create a painting place like this? If you look at weekend at the federal performance center kienbaum Arno Stern’s list of materials , yes. If you want quality, you’ll have to dig deeper into your pockets. But I didn’t want to take over the painting place 1:1, I wanted to create a place where my son could express his creativity.
So there was no such thing as a separate painting area. No cork walls, no b2b reviews self-made (or purchased) palette table, no super expensive high-quality paints and brushes, etc.
Somehow I was disappointed that now that it looked so beautiful in my head, nothing came of it.
And at some point the furniture that was already there in the hallway began to shift in my mind’s eye. The shelf stayed where it was, the files came out, the painting and craft supplies came in. Everything was lined with newspaper. A small but perfectly suitable painting space was born. Absolutely NOT in the spirit of Arno Stern, but that was never my goal either.