--- title: Justin Trudeau and Kids Paint a Mural on a Rainy Day description: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his three children spent a rainy day painting a mural on their basement wall. canonical: https://time.com/4723265/justin-trudeau-kids-paint-mural/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-03T17:55:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:05:21.015Z og:title: Justin Trudeau and His Kids Had the Perfect Rainy Day og:description: 'Nothing better than art and colours to wake up our spirits!’ og:url: https://time.com/4723265/justin-trudeau-kids-paint-mural/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe35b8ded905cd71/6988c00ee20a87b680a949c7/canada-marijuana-legalization.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: GERMANY-CANADA-POLITICS-DIPLOMACY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Justin Trudeau and His Kids Had the Perfect Rainy Day twitter:description: 'Nothing better than art and colours to wake up our spirits!’ twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe35b8ded905cd71/6988c00ee20a87b680a949c7/canada-marijuana-legalization.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Justin Trudeau and His Kids Had the Perfect Rainy Day by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 3, 2017 5:55 PM UTC  Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau attends a joint press conference with the German Chancellor on Feb. 17, 2017 in Berlin. Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau attends a joint press conference with the German Chancellor on Feb. 17, 2017 in Berlin.KAY NIETFELD—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 3, 2017 5:55 PM UTC Not even bad weather could rain on Canadian Prime Minister [Justin Trudeau](http://time.com/4722238/matthew-perry-justin-trudeau-rematch/)‘s parade. An Instagram photo originally posted by Trudeau’s wife, [Sophie Grégoire Trudeau](http://time.com/4338681/sophie-gregoire-trudeau-canada/), shows how the [Trudeau family](http://time.com/4552668/justin-trudeau-halloween-costume/) spends quality time together on a rainy day. In the picture later re-posted by the Prime Minister, Trudeau and his three kids — [Xavier, Ella-Grace and Hadrien](http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/04/03/sophie-gregoire-trudeau-family-photo%5Fn%5F15768526.html) — stand in front of a mural of a castle near a sea that they are painting. In proper rainy-day fashion (literally), they are all clad in pajamas — bed head included. Just as the Prime Minister does, Mrs. Trudeau captioned the photo in both English and French. It reads, “What did we do after staring at the beige basement walls on a rainy day? A mural!!!! Nothing better than art and colours to wake up our spirits. A vos pinceaux les enfants!!!” The only rainy day blues here are in the painting itself. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4723265/justin-trudeau-kids-paint-mural/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4723265/justin-trudeau-kids-paint-mural/"},"headline":"Justin Trudeau and His Kids Had the Perfect Rainy Day","datePublished":"2017-04-03T17:55:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:05:21.015Z","description":"'Nothing better than art and colours to wake up our spirits!’","url":"https://time.com/4723265/justin-trudeau-kids-paint-mural/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe35b8ded905cd71/6988c00ee20a87b680a949c7/canada-marijuana-legalization.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe35b8ded905cd71/6988c00ee20a87b680a949c7/canada-marijuana-legalization.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GERMANY-CANADA-POLITICS-DIPLOMACY","caption":"Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau attends a joint press conference with the German Chancellor on Feb. 17, 2017 in Berlin.","creditText":"KAY NIETFELD—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4723265/justin-trudeau-kids-paint-mural/","name":"Justin Trudeau and His Kids Had the Perfect Rainy Day"}}]}] ```