Have you entered the giveaway from Baby Steals? If not click here. Music is used in my home many times a day to help lift moods, to initiate laughter, to wake up but most of all to calm. Lullabies play an important part in our home life and I honestly can say our lives would be […]
I promised I would post our first project we completed from the book Great American Artsits for Kids by MaryAnn Kohl and Kim Solga so here it is! We chose an artist from the seciont Early American Art named Mary Cassat who loved to paint pictures of mothers with their children. The girls enjoyed listening […]
For the giveaway click here. Yes Bread and Butter can be an art form, cooking is the biggest art form in our home. I bought this beautiful cookbook called The River Cottage Family Cookbook and it has quickly become my new favorite cookbook. The pictures are beautiful, recipes are written with love and it explains […]
The giveaway is a few posts down, have you entered yet? I love when I come across such fun things. While visiting one of my favorite blogs Mom Most Traveled I saw one of her posts talking about an Art and Poetry Contest for ages 12 and under. I thought this is my cup of […]
The giveaway is a few posts down. We finished up the art project from the sheet we sprayed with tempura paint filled bottles, from last month’s Art Group. My original idea was to do “stuffed art” but after cutting and sewing the pieces from the sheet they were a little to large to stuff. So […]
Click here for the giveaway. Today was the first day I started to teach the girls about Beethoven. They both love listening to his music and loved hearing little facts and stories about him. I have listed some information on him below. I of course did not read them all of this and reworded some things […]
Click here for the giveaway. Art Group Activity #1 I planned on reading this to the kids before we began painting but I returned it to the library by accident so lets pretend I did 🙂 “A frustrated grade school artist, Vashti sits slumped over her blank piece of paper at the end of art […]
Click here for the giveaway. For our second art lesson we learned about Alexander Calder, sometimes the artist known for his “mobiles” along with many other things. I explained to Abby that Calder thought of a new way to sculpt, by bending and twisted wire to “draw” his figures in space. Of course bending, twisting […]
The giveaway is a few posts down. One of my local university’s museums is the Life & Science Bean Museum. I am sure this is a very incorrect description, but it is a museum full of stuffed dead animals or dried insects 🙂 Here is a link for a more accurate description… http://mlbean.byu.edu/home/ and […]
Today was Abby’s first real “art lesson” involving the painting Number 31 by Jackson Pollock and the marble art lesson from Scribble Art by MaryAnn Kohl. I let Abby pick out the colors of paint at the craft store along with a bag of inexpensive marbles, two different sizes. We lined a old yucky cookie sheet […]
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