I try very hard to be helpful to my kids’ teachers. I donate my time for volunteering as often as they will have me, give little gifts throughout the year, from useful things to comfort items, conference day survival baskets, and so on. This year, my daughter’s teacher is new. Not just new to our […]
We’ve been doing a fair amount of salt dough creation. Right now we are working on an Easter egg tree. We made salt dough eggs, and have painted them a base color. We’ll be adding accents later. Kidlet and I will be exploring glass etching to decorate the vase we are using to hold the […]
This week Open Ended Art is Non-Open Ended Art — Lets see turkeys. I decided to do a re-make of an activity we did a few years ago. Sadly, I couldn’t find any pictures of the finished product last time; it would be neat to see then and now! Once again only about half my […]
A few months back, Family Fun Magazine had a project to create the “Ultimate Homework Station“, using a tri-fold display board (often used for presentations, found in office supply stores). Thier version was designed to actually store all the supplies needed for homework, and then to fold up for easy storage. I don’t really need […]
We got to open ended art a little late this week. I put out a bag of feathers, air drying clay, clay tools, and wiggly eyes.  First he said “With feathers I can make Kevin!” (from the movie “Up”) but that quickly became generic feathered friends once he realized how hard Kevin would be 😉 […]
This weeks open ended art project theme is “Matisse”. It’s a new thing; Open Ended Art will feature a specific artist once a month. We read “When Pig-Asso met Moo-Tisse” and “Drawing with Scissors” as well as checking out some Matisse art on the internet to get familiar with his work. I really loved this […]
Kid friendly friday is hosted at I Blame My Mother. Check out this weeks linky to see the projects and ideas that other mom’s have posted! I think that making book marks is a great activity for kids. We’ve done it a number of times over the years. It lends itself to many different themes […]
This weeks open ended art project was pumpkins. I had a bunch of pumpkin stickers and die cuts left over from the bookmark activity we did at his harvest party, so I pulled those all out, added basic art supplies and let him at it. First he started scribbling all over the page in multiple […]
The theme for this week’s Open Ended Art project was simply “black and white”. Once again I wanted to go with the spirit of the challenge and provide only materials to him, without any specific project in mind, and without assisting or correcting in any way. He is old enough that it works.  When he was […]
I decided to participate (or rather, have the kidlet participate!) in the Open-Ended Art Projects posted over at Growing and Learning by Leaps and Bounds. This week the theme is Fall Colors: Red, Yellow, Orange and Brown. [Apparently the creator of that site has elected to delete thier blog. This was sudden, as they had […]
