The days of summer are rolling by in a blur and creativity is stifled in between baby cries and "must do's." However, I was instantly enamored with the new project by some of my favorite girls and wanted to join in..
Kenzie gave me the inspiration this morning...
We did just as Kenzie suggested - using the flowers and bits of nature to paint & collage the art. Thank you Kenzie & the Echoes creators. This Mama needed that.
Riley loves to do mail and play post office. Today he had the fun idea to make mailboxes for everyone in our house and hang them by their doors. So we took some old Kleenex boxes, covered them with foam, added red flags with brads and decorated them up. We have all had a great time sending mail to each other - and to make it even better we are writing them out like real envelopes using our full names (not addresses yet) so Riley is getting a lot of practice writing his last name. I drew over the last names in the photos so they are a bit odd looking, but you'll get the idea. Cabot had fun too - mostly dumping out foam stickers all over the living room. (=
By: Shena, Riley (5 years) and Cabot (20 months) Mommy and Riley
I made an outdoor background for each kiddo to paint as they wished. Riley decided to paint a Roller Coaster - he loves roller coasters! Cabot created an impressionistic painting that could be interpreted in many different ways: maybe it's birds? or kites flying? What it IS is his first painting! FUN! (=
By: Shena, Riley (5 years) and Cabot (20 months) Mommy and Riley
I asked TheSquirrel what should we draw and she quickly shouted "a great blue heron!" because we saw them canoing and they're always flying over our house. I was very impressed by her drawing, as she looked at a photo of a great blue heron. They have kinda wiggly long necks--hence the strange shape. Then I helped her notice each other feature.
I flipped it over to the other side and drew some lines for her to cut it up. (great cutting practice!)
And we have a puzzle out of her drawing! (It's pretty rough, would work better with higher contrast and thicker paper or more embellishing but this is all we had time for... go nuts with the idea itself!)
A great video from YouTube highlighting hand lettering by a father and son.
In other news, one of my goals this year is to redesign this site, get more participants and try and post regularly with work from my daughter and myself, plus try and highlight some other big and little art from the web. Maybe all this will happen this summer. Maybe I won't be as swamped with work then :)
I want to thank all of you who have kept this site fresh with posts!
We borrowed a library book involving shapes that become sea creatures in a cut-paper style...
and since today we integrated the letter D to our learning, we looked at the "semicircle" page...
and made our own jellyfish out of cut paper. This is TheSquirrel's, which was great for scissor practice. (The jellyfish I mean; I had to cut the fish for her)
And here is mine:
By: ErinSherman & TheSquirrel, age just4! WhiteShoes
Here's how it works!
Grab a child in your life and let them dictate what you all will do. Work how you work so they can see what you do and how you do it. If it's on the computer, give them the
mouse to color something in or if your medium of choice is paint, have them paint. Just be creative!! You can see what I do with one of my styles
here. Enjoy your time and just have fun!
Participation is open to all.
