We did a lesson in contrast today from the book How To Teach Art To Children, they learned what contrast means (the degree of difference between colors or tones in a piece of art), and made a grid to show high contrast color combinations. I really like this book, they…
Tonight was our Keepers at Home group. She loves this group and we’ve learned some fun things here. Tonight was basket weaving. Praise God that a friend sent the video for us to pre-watch before we started, or i would have been lost! If you’re interested, the Basket Master Nancy…
I found these fun paint by numbers starter kits at Wal-mart in the craft section. The girls love them, they also have color by numbers and ones that get harder, these are for beginners, they say 8+, but my 6yr old did it just fine, now the 3 year old…
Sticky Mosaics. I have to say that I doubted my 3 year old could handle this assignment, too short of an attention span, but really she did quite well. Below is a close up of the sheet my son is working on, you can see the numbers in little squares,…
To finish out our week on Jesus being the light of the world, we made Sun Window hangings. I’m not sure what MFW’s obsession with melted crayon shavings are, but I’m starting to get tired of having to shave crayons LOL! The shaving part is a mess! They do make…
Hi all, you’ll be happy to know (or at least I am) that my super AWESOME husband has just order me a Canon Powershot, small, super cute, and last but definitely NOT least: its PINK! Yahoo! Can’t wait to get back to pics on my blog! In the meantime, boxes…
We started our day off with the Pledge, then moved into a dark closet… Before you turn me into child services…we went into the closet to discuss how hard it would be to walk through the world in the dark. What was our solution? Turn on the light! Duh 🙂…
We did our Friday Nature Walk today, we didn’t go too far tho’. Thanks to the generosity of my neighbor, we were able to go into her backyard, and observe and draw her beautiful flowers! Let’s just say my yard isn’t quite so….um…colorful. So we talked about all the cool…
Sorry for the absence the last couple days, I got a NASTY virus on my computer and am still in the process of rebuilding it! What a pain, especially since we were in the throws of school and I use my computer A LOT! Here’s what we did today after…
