Open Ended Art-Yellow with mixed media

My little man is ready to create with his apron and shoes on! I am glad we had the art apron on!!








So, this go around we did yellow with mixed media. Wasn't too sure about what to do with this one. I just put out different things my big girl could create with. I really had to try and not get frustrated, b/c she wasn't creating on the paper I wanted her to use. I am trying to get them to do at least some work on paper to make a book for them. She decided she was going to paint and use construction paper to make her one of a kind creation. Today I gave her another go at it with some yellow paint mixed with sand. I find that she starts off by painting things, for example today was an easter egg, then she just completely covers the page with paint. So, I feel like all of our pages are going to look the same. Any ideas for this, or should I let her do her thing?

My little boy once again was doing great for about five minutes. I let him only have paint and crayons.

Go get involved in open ended art at Teaching My Little Bookworm's Blog

Open Ended Art-Mixing with Yellow

Today we started our Open Ended Art from Teaching My Little Bookworm. I was adventurous and let my little guy join in the fun. I do have to remember that he has a short attention span. He did pretty well for about 3-4 minutes and then decided it was time to taste test the paint, oh well.

Open Ended Art-Yellow and Prints

I decided to try Open Ended Art from Teaching My Little Bookworm's blog. I am not sure how well I did with the whole thing??? I thought it was supposed to be just let the kids do whatever they wanted with the supplies (which is really hard for me), but then I saw on other people's blogs how they had their kids do handprints and footprints, so I am not sure if I did it right or not??? Please excuse my grammar.

I gave Chloe some items she could make prints with and then let her go for it, I did make her do a handprint.

Going Away

I know this picture isn't the easiest to identify, but it is a bag of gifts. My husband and I are going overseas for 8 days and I have never left my kids that long. I am so anxious about it!!!!! So, I thought I would have a gift for my daughter to open everyday so she has something to look forward to. I hope this works:)

Fish Day

Our day was all about:

FISH

Breakfast: cheese toast

We did some fish drawings together

Our fish books

Field trip: we went to the pet store to look at some real fish

Coleman enjoyed the fish too!

Sorting fish into colors

Lunch: Sandwich shaped like a fish, cantaloupe cut like fish, goldfish, jello fishbowl

Holding up her own little fishbowl of jello with Sweedish fish swimming in it.

Art project: painted the ocean, glued on fish and then glued on this net that we captured the fish with.

Afternoon snack: Nemo fruit chews

Dinner (doesn't look that great in the pic, but tasted good): fish, more jello with fish in it and more cantaloupe shaped like fish.

Flower Power

It has been a long time since I have posted on here! I am hoping to get better about that. Life has been busy and now I might have a little time to do some fun things. Here is a flower shirt I made today. I love it. It looks a little high on the neck, but it really isn't. I found this http://katiedid.squarespace.com/katie-did-journal/2009/5/1/tutorial-flower-collar.html and just had to make my own version!

Tie-shirt

I have been wanting to make a tie shirt for my little man. I am not quite sure what I think about it. I was using some leftover fabric, so maybe it is the fabric I am not sure about. But, who doesn't love anything modeled by my little Colemanator!