Patriotic Paint Chip Flags

If you've been following me a while you know how much I love paint chip (paint sample) projects. (other paint chip ideas listed at the end of this post) Here is my latest paint chip project.... just in time for all the summer holidays.  All you need are some paint chips in red and blue shades, scissors, and glue.

Here are all 4 versions of my Interpretations of the USA flag.  I think I was inspired by artist Jasper Johns.

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I did these as part of Tinkerlab's DPS Challenge.  You check out the challenge here if you want to join.

I'm sure these had to be some of my inspiration:

Three Flags by Jasper Johns

Two Flags by Jasper Johns

Have fun creating with paint chips!

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Other Paint Chip Ideas from The Chocolate Muffin Tree:

Paint Chip Rainbow Chain

Paint Chip Art Collage

Paint Chip Candy Cane Garland

Paint Chip Valentine Cards

Paint Chip Valentine Cards

A few days ago we created Paint Chip Valentine's!!! (I have a thing for Paint Chip Projects if you haven't noticed yet!) We've been getting into the spirit of Valentine's Day by putting up our Heart decorations and by making Snowy Hearts.  C was super excited to get our Valentine making underway since we just took down our X-mas decorations last week.  To create the hearts on our cards we used a mixture of construction paper and paint chips (paint samples).  We began by cutting a zillion hearts!  We folded our papers and I drew a half of a heart so that my daughter could easily cut them out by herself.

We glued the cut out hearts on our blank cards.  I happened to have some red, purple, and white blank cards, but you could use folded construction paper too.  I talked about overlapping and arrangement of the hearts  before actually gluing.  C seemed to grasp the concept most of the time.

Here are some of our finished cards. I love how they look!!!

The next day we added some Metallic Markers to our Valentines for an extra special touch! We used these metallic markers on our Spin Art Valentine's from last year too.

Stay Tuned for more Heart and Valentine related posts!

What kinds of Heart/Valentine projects have you and your children been working on?

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Paint Chip Candy Cane Garland!!!

We've done quite a few posts on paint chip art,  but when I saw Paint Cut Paste's post on Paint Chip Christmas Trees it got me thinking for a while about another idea! Paint chip Candy Cane Garland and ornaments!!! It was definitely an "AHA" moment for me! Take a look.

I had a bunch of paint chip samples on hand and just happened to have red and green shades! So happy! I know there are other colors of candy canes, but I just wanted to stick with the traditional colors! You can either free draw the candy cane on the back of the paint chip or use a cookie cutter as a pattern for a more uniform result!  I made the candy canes slanted so the white stripes would run diagonally.

After I traced the candy canes,  I cut them out and punched two holes on the top.  Then I strung a red and green ribbon through the holes. I made sure the red ribbon showed through on the green candy cane and vice versa!

I just love the results!!!  If you are worried about the back showing on the candy canes, trace two candy canes back to back and glue together.  Then the garland will look pretty from both sides!

You could also make ornaments with the candy canes or whatever you choose to make with them!

Cassie even made her own Colorful Paint Chip Candy Cane Garland!!!

Other Holiday Paint Chip Ideas Around The Internet:

Be sure to check out Paint Cut Paste's Paint Chip Christmas Trees here.

Dilly Dali Art has a great post on a Paint Chip Christmas Chain here.

Angela Sgro Designs has some wonderful Paint Chip Christmas Tree Cards here

A Spoonful of Sugar has some cute Paint Chip Gift Tags here

Our other Paint Chip Posts:

Paint Chip Rainbow Chain.

Paint Chip Collage and Easter Egg.

I'm thinking of more paint chip ideas for the future....
Stay Tuned!!!

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Paint Chip Rainbow Chain

Another project with paint chips: a Paint Chip Rainbow Chain! (Be sure to check out our Paint Chip Collages.) Very simple and easy to do! All you need are some paint chips from your local home improvement store, scissors/paper cutter/x-acto blade, and a stapler.  Cassie is great with the stapler,  but with this project it was difficult for her to do it herself. I had to hold the paper and she could squeeze the stapler.  Here is a finished chain:

Here is our beautiful arrangement of paint chips cut into strips.  I used a paper cutter which worked out really well to cut pretty straight strips.  You may even be able to find paint chips that are already long thin rectangles to form into chains.  Grab a stapler and your ready to go!

These chains would make a great decoration for Spring to brighten up any room.  They would also be a great decoration for a rainbow themed birthday party which I've seen at  the blogs The Imagination Tree and Paint Cut Paste. Two great blogs with amazing ideas!

Still having fun and thinking of more ideas with paint chips!!! 

A reader gave me an idea for my Paint Chip Collage post:

Use paint chips in "earth" tones or "grey" tones to make a collage for a rainy day!

The ideas are endless!

Do you have any other ideas for a Paint Chip Chain Garland besides a rainbow themed chain?

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Paint Chip Art Collage

We've been creating some projects with paint chips.  It was quite a fun experience just picking out paint chips at Home Depot with my daughter----she had such a fun time! Cassie couldn't believe that they were free! What a visually stimulating experience! Our first project we created was a Paint Chip Collage.

Simple and easy project. First gather some paint chips at any painting or home improvement store. I think this was a great experience in itself and everyone should do this soon! (without having to do a home painting project) These paint chips take on a whole new meaning when you can just  pick them because you like the color!

Then we just cut the paint chips into strips and different shapes!

Next,  we started to glue down shapes.  This can be a little tricky because the thick paper that the chips are printed on are thick and tend to roll up.  I encouraged my daughter to hold the pieces down and count  to ten.

More gluing! What fun colors to work with! This is a good project for teaching overlapping.  Cassie got the idea! "Mom,  Look I'm overlapping!!"

Here are our finished paint chip collages:

Vibrant color!!!

Since Easter is around the corner we decided to cut one of our collages to look like an Easter egg!

We have more paint chip projects coming up in future posts!!!!

These paint chips are inspiring!

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