Holiday Family Art Prompt And Advent Activity

One of The Art Pantry readers, Emily Holzknecht, recently shared with me her family advent art tradition. I absolutely love this Advent activity! Emily creates a bag of art materials for each day of the Advent calendar. On Dec 1, each person in the family gets a canvas and they open the first bag of art materials. They use the same canvas each day and open a new bag of materials to add to their work.

This project is sort of like an invitation to create, advent calendar, & art game all in one. I love the idea of building on the same canvas with surprise materials each day.

For our family project, I decided to offer one large canvas so that we can all work on it together. We celebrate both Christmas and Hanukkah, but we will be traveling later in the month, so I will end the project on the last day of Hanukkah on December 14th.

To kick off this winter family game, I have put out a large canvas, acrylic paints, brushes, water cup, and rag. I think the girls are going to love this! Thanks for the idea, Emily :)

Want to play along? I’ll be posting our progress on Instagram and Facebook and then I’ll do a wrap-up post here on the blog at the end. What are you doing for creative family activities this holiday season? I’d love to hear what you’re up to!

Happy Holidays!