Chairs and Kids

Last week my daughter and her friends were hanging out and complaining about having nothing to do, so I encouraged them to paint with me.  I told them that if they each painted a chair I would help them sell them and they could keep all the money. If you know anything about 10 and 12 year olds you know money is of interest!  Since the chairs are all different but all have spindles, I suggested that they paint them in beachy colors and we could sell them as a set or individually. 

Before:

I pulled out a few colors that I had from  The Urban Rooster  and the girls got on old clothes and started to paint. 

After the paint was dried they wanted to distress the chairs, so I showed them how to use my electrical sander and sand the edges in the places the wear would naturally show.  I  let them distress by themselves and they did a great job! 

For the pictures, I let them stage the chairs themselves with just a little advice of keeping it simple with a POP. 

This chair was transformed by my 12 year old daughter

This aqua chair was transformed by a 12 year old 

This chair was transformed by a 10 year old and sold in about an hour! 

All the chairs sold within 2 days! 

I was very impressed with the girls and their paint jobs, distressing  and staging!  

They loved getting the money!  

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