Has Encanto been on repeat at your house too!? My Reagan has easily seen the movie over a dozen times. If we are honest though, I love it too.
A movie about family, gifts, color, helping others, culture, and community is a magical mix! We’ve listened to the soundtrack, watched the movie and now crafted to its theme! If you’re a fan of it too, we’d love to share an inspirational project for your Encanto loving artist!
If you treat this project like the movie’s theme, “the miracle is not some magic that you’ve got, the miracle is you”, than you will have a blast. Gather some supplies and have fun!
It’s not what you have that will make it amazing.
It’s the process and using what you have to bring you and your artists’ ideas to life!
It’s no secret that I love to use what supplies we have on hand. The creative process should not be expensive. So gather some basic supplies that are close to what is pictured or listed below and then we will tap into that imagination!
Supplies:
- base house shape (we used a wood sign board we already had)
- paint
- paintbrushes
- scrap paper, foam sheets, cardboard
- glue or mod podge
- scissors
The first step is to paint your house! The Madrigal house is really colorful and several floors, so we picked three bright colors of paint and used each one to represent a different floor of the house.
Our house is a little more narrow then the Madrigal house in the movie, but it is the type of board we had on hand. If your house is wider, than you may be even able to add more windows and details in this next step than we were able to add.
The next step is to cut and glue scrap papers to create a roof and overhang details to the different floors.
We did three different styles of roofs and simply glued the papers in place on the painted boarder seem between the floors.
The final step is in all the details! Add as many layers of paper you want to make your magical house pop! We added trees, windows, flowers, and then drew in a magical candle.
Use your imagination and create as many details as you want to add!
We were inspired by the Madrigal house, but now you are making your own magic house. There is no right or wrong. This is your moment to take an inspiration and play with the process!
Have fun and make the project your own! Do you have supplies that we didn’t mention? Break them out and see what you can do when you experiment and use your imagiantion!
We had so much fun creating and playing with color!
What do you think? Do you know an artist who would love to make their own Encanto House? Go on a scavenger hunt around your house to collect some supplies. You can do this! You just need a few things, an imagination, and a little time!
**Local friends, we will be releasing this fun project as a creative kit in our online store THIS Friday! If you don’t want to gather the supplies, let us do the work and grab the kit from us.
Isn’t it fun when something unplanned catches your eye? I think there is beauty in the unexpected.
What I did not expect was the papers that I used to insert between my journal pages to become their own beautiful canvas. These papers were intended to simply catch the paint that rolled off the current page I was painting. I wanted them to catch paint from oozing below and hurting past pages I had painted.
The papers dried as the pages dried. I then moved them up and inserted them in between new pages, as I kept filling my journal with color. What happened in the process was layers and layers of paint filling up and creating fun abstract mini paintings.
I started to love the pages. All of a sudden I didn’t want them to get ruined, and I contemplated stopping to use them and get new papers, so I didn’t “mess them up.”
By the time I finished my journals, I had this stack of papers that I found so beautiful and loved as much as the journals. I cut them up into smaller sections and planned to use them as cards or bookmarks.
Once I had a stack of now ripped mini abstract paintings, I picked a blank, colorful greeting card and sewed my painting to it. The result was a fun, textured, colorful, messy (yet finished) greeting card. 
What do you think? Do you love them as much as I do?
Do you ever find yourself needing just a safe, inexpensive way to play?
With back to school shopping happening, composition notebooks are only about $0.50 each right now. What a cheap canvas! I bought eight notebooks, gave them a quick spray paint to have a blank canvas and got started just brushing them with big bold strokes of acrylic paint.
I played with colors mixing, making subtle blends, and big bold blends. It was so fun and satisfying to squirt paint directly onto the notebook and to just start brushing and watching that paint move. I played with directions, pressure of the brush, and the amount of paint. It was therapeutic to play with colors I love and stretch myself with new colors.
I loved picking contrasting colors and create movement that went against the other brush strokes. The final step was stamping some circles and squirting some 
What do you think? Will you pick up some composition notebooks next time you are at the store? I had so much fun creating these covers that now I am continuing on in them! I love art journaling and after leading some 
Are you ready for spring?
I loved how there were different patterns, texture of fabrics and shades of colors. I started by cutting about 3″ long leaves. I didn’t measure or worry about the exact width or shape. This is a great activity to do during a movie or couch lounging one night.
I worked in about 3′ long pieces of wire and made a stack of this foliage as I went. I made 8 separate pieces, but you could make as many as you wanted. I intended for my foliage to hang like a garland, but you could create yours on dowel rods for a sturdy base to stick in a vase as well. There are lots of possibilities!
I love how the fabric creates a soft leaf and foliage look. It really makes it more believable by how it moves and does not have a harsh fold. I took my foliage to the studio and hung it down in our faux fireplace.
So, are you ready for spring? Or, do you want to will it into existence by creating spring looks too?