05/10/2026
🎨 THE FINAL DAY OF HOLIDAY CLUB… AND WE SAVED THE SELF-PORTRAITS FOR Last! 😅
Our last Creative Kids Holiday Art Club was a small one — just a few little artists — but sometimes the smallest classes make the biggest memories. ❤️
And then I casually announced… “Today we’re painting ourselves.”
The looks I got. 😂
Apparently, painting a dinosaur is one thing, but painting your own face?...... Absolutely terrifying!
So I had a little trick up my sleeve.
A couple of days earlier, I’d taken a photograph of each child and printed it in black and white. Using carbon paper, we traced the main lines onto watercolour paper, giving them a little roadmap to work from.
And before anyone thinks I’ve discovered a magical “paint like a professional in five minutes” button… I haven’t. 😉 The painting was still ALL theirs. The tracing simply gave them the confidence to understand where those important facial lines go.
And WOW… they did SO well! 🥰
You can recognise every single one of them — which is pretty impressive when one of our artists was only six years old!
And that little six-year-old absolutely stole my creative heart. ❤️ There are some children where you can just see it — that natural artistic instinct, the way they see shapes, colour and detail. He definitely has that gift.
The girls were amazing too, and I was so proud watching all of them realise,“Hey… I CAN actually do this!”
And honestly, that’s my favourite part of teaching art. It’s not just about making a pretty painting. It’s about building confidence, learning to look, learning to trust yourself — and discovering that something that seemed scary can actually be broken down into little steps.
Sometimes you just need a little carbon paper to convince your brain that you’re an artist. 😂
Small class. Big creativity. Very proud art teacher. ❤️🎨