Chalk It Up!

What time is it?

It's Art Time!!

I absolutely love this temporary tattoo we just got on Saturday from an art festival downtown called Chalk It Up.  Every year a local art museum called Artpace takes over a few blocks on Houston Street and invites local artists and art groups to draw with chalk on the sidewalks.  Each group/artist is given a certain amount of sidewalk space and groups usually have a theme for their murals.  The community is also encouraged to draw with chalk in a "freestyle" zone.  There are also food booths, live music, and art stations.

This year Elina's art school also had a piece of the sidewalk, so we decided to check this festival out.  Elina's school named their piece Peacock Plumage and each child got a peacock feather to decorate and color.  Elina was really focused on blending the colors together.  She was definitely hard at work.

The little ones got in on it, too!

The kids visited the art stations...

and then we walked around to see some of the murals.  They were all so amazing!

This one is definitely my favorite...

We will definitely be going to this festival from now on.  It was a very family-friendly and laidback scene to check out artwork.