Genius at work!

Da Vinci's next masterpiece

Yes We Did!

So Obama, Hedwig and a fat turtle walk into a bar...

Posin' with her possee.

Which muppet was this??

Art Class

Fluffy Puppy's artwork

Squirrel's finished hand drawing

Fluffy Puppy's masterpiece

BROWNIES

LOW FAT TUNA SALAD

Cooling the hard boiled eggs

Draining the tuna for the salad.

Mixing everything together. I will post the recipe tomorrow.

HOT ROCKS!!!

Fluffy Puppy's finished hot rocks




Fluffy's bedside reading:

Art project~

http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/2007/12/cityscape_23.html

Today, we did that project. It was really, really fun.

Squirrel's finished work:

And Fluffy Puppy's. If you can guess where/what this is, you get extra points :)

At first, I was going to do a different picture, but I couldn't get the perception right. So I'll attempt that another day. Here's the original picture: http://www.stpeter-skokie.org/images/outside.jpg

Squirrel is learning about three-four digit multiplication. She likes it a lot, though it's difficult.

And I'm doing the genealogy on my family... It's extremely difficult. My Grandma has 9 siblings, my Grandpa has 10, my Big Bubbe had 5, and my Zayde had 3. :)

-- Fluffy Puppy

Art

We studied Andy Warhol's Red Sam. Here is Squirrel's watercolor.

Here's Fluffy's. If you would like to see the real Red Sam as well as his other artwork, go here.

sculpey

After school today the girls decided they wanted to play with sculpey. They've never used it before so it was a new experience for them. It was more difficult to work with then play-dough because the consistency is tougher. Fluffy Puppy said next time she would take more time to mold the figures and use her hands to really heat up the clay.

Now this is just WRONG. Give the nice puppy back it's body....

Hey, this is a family blog!

Much better!

Squirrel concentrating on shoving the pencil up the pups -- I mean, giving the puppy some details.

Creating her next victim, er, puppy.

Giving her puppy bunny ears.




A side view of Fluffy Puppys Akita.


Posing for the camera.


They are ready for the oven.

Hot Rocks

Today we decided to make rock art and the kids had a great time! To make, peel broken crayons until their naked and set aside. Heat rocks in a 350 oven for 15 minutes, make sure to put foil on your cookie sheet. Only take a few out at a time, otherwise your rocks will become too cool. Handle rocks with oven mitts or tongs, be careful, the rocks are REALLY HOT (just ask Squirrel). Take your crayons and watch them melt as you create your masterpiece!

Waiting for the rocks to heat up

using our time wisely

Time to play!




Next time we'll use foil to put the rocks on instead of my dish towels. I think they're going to stain.


I couldn't believe how many green crayons we had!


Didn't they do a good job?

Landscaping with oil pastels

I've decided to start each morning we are home with an art project.

It's a gentle way to ease two sleepyheads into school. Here's Fluffy Puppies artwork

Squirrel's artwork



Mama Llama's artwork

To create this project, start with a black piece of construction paper. In pencil, create a landscape. Then take glue and trace your pencil lines. When that dries, color it in with oil pastels. Beautiful!

Organic Shapes

Contrary to what you see, Fluffy Puppy is actually giving someone a mustache.

tracing organic shapes





Fluffy Puppy's


Squirrel's


Mama Llama's


To make this art project, draw organic shapes, making sure to overlap some of them. Then color them in with washable crayola markers. When finished, take a paint brush filled with water and drip it onto the artwork. Swirl it around a bit, making colors bleed into each other. We also tried spraying a squirt bottle on the artwork which worked pretty well too. When it dries, take a black sharpie and trace all the water drips made from the drizzled water.