Oh, what a wonderful time is this time of summer with its nice, warm and lazy days. It is a time for adults to rest, refresh their strength and relax before the next crazy school year comes. To tell you the truth, those quite and peaceful summer days are usually short-term. Sooner or later they will be replaced with the very common phrases like I'm bored, I want to do something interesting or even I do not have anything to do. Every parent is familiar with this sort of expressions. There is a challenge for each parent. What should a Mum do in order to reduce the number of her child crying to the least? The key to this situation is a very simple thing. It is canvas art. Canvas art is a kind of modern art, offering a rich diversity of options. What do you need to put it into practice? In any craft store in your neighborhood you will find everything you need. First of all, you buy some pre stretched pieces of canvas. It can be of all shapes, sizes and colors. The best size of a canvas prints bit to keep your children minds occupied is usually a square 12 x 15 cm piece. It suits better because it is more convenient and easier for your child to handle it in his/ her little hands. It will give to your child a lot of satisfaction and helps to implement a variety of ideas by the mean of art.

Make a nice scrapbook on your wall.

When you come back from the shop, let your child to look around for some old photos of your family or scraps from the magazines. These snapshots can turn into a fantastic scrapbook hanging on the wall. As for the topic- it can be a special holiday, someone`s birthday party, family holiday, weekend picnic and many, many other pleasant moments of your life. Now the real art and creativity begins. A child can paint canvas in his/her preferred color (it is better to use special acrylic paints) and leave it to dry for some hours. Also your child can decorate it due to the heart desires and wishes, adding some ornamentation or just let it as simple as it is. You can suggest your promising artist to exercise with the stamping, stenciling or even make up a title for his masterpiece. All the parts and pieces are glued down to work of art with the craft clue. So it is high time to hang this stunning piece of art on the wall in the children`s bedroom.

Adolescence and celebrity collage.

Every parent knows what a nice teen age is. There is also an interesting point we can take it out from this situation. If you have a teen age child, then you are the lucky parent and you know what the interests of your daughter or son are. You know that your child is a fan of a star. So, you can find magazines with the photos of his/ her favourite celebrities about the house. If you begin to observe that your house is fulfilled with those magazines, then you have a chance to create a celebrity collage. The technique is the same as for the scrapbook. Paint canvas, let it dry and stick the pictures of the favourite stars onto canvas. Children may arrange the photos in the way they want and like- it is a free flight of their fantasy. By adding some sparkling jewels, ornamentation, decoration the canvas will have unique features and look terrific.

In conclusion, we are daring to say that every child can be entertained, if parents switch on their fantasy. If your child says that he/ she is bored, we can state that there are no boring children or uninteresting summer days, there is no wish, enthusiasm and a little bit of fantasy. So, our children can have a nice summer pastime, keeping busy their minds and making even nicer the wall of their rooms by creating art canvases.