Easter Egg Decorating

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had a lot of fun and made a huge mess decorating eggs (mostly due to my son’s participation). We boiled the eggs and while they were still hot, the kids drew on them with crayons. It is the coolest thing to see the crayons melt on the eggs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then we bathed the eggs in dye (food coloring + water + vinegar). This is where the mess happened because my son wanted to spoon the water all over the place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anticipating the leftover dye, I had frozen a block of ice for them to play with. I gave them some of the hot water, some salt, some droppers and of course the leftover dye and they just played with it. I put away the eggs but let them keep two and they continued to transfer these eggs over and over from the different containers.

So it was fun plus a little art plus a little science (heat melts things + color mixing).

Window Crayons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was cleaning out the art supply closet and we found our window crayons. It has been a while since we used them and the kids had lots of fun decorating some aluminum foil with them!

Art with the new supplies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I placed an order with Discount School Supply and my kids were so excited to try it out the minute it came in the mail (the shipping was super quick…by the way!) The first thing they enjoyed was the glitter glue. I had also ordered really big paper, which Anabel said she did not like after using it once, she said she wanted a smaller piece.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My son also enjoyed working with the glitter glue, which he quickly turned into fingerpainting with the glitter glue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then he used a small paintbrush. I think his final picture came out pretty cool…there is a dark shadow from where I took the picture. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anabel also painted with some new watercolor paint…both with a brush and with a dropper. I also bought her some oil pastels which she has been using as well.

A Morning of Art

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One morning, we decided to break out some art supplies and start creating. My son joined us for a short while, probably 5 minutes. Then he completely exited the room to play somewhere else.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anabel painted a picture of a bird with a “blue spotted egg”….she must be thinking of the mockingbirds that nest in our yard every year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inspired by a project in an art book that we got from the library, Anabel wanted to do “glue pictures”. The project is to draw a picture, then trace over it with glue. Then you wait for it to dry and then you paint over it. I snapped a picture before putting on the glue all of the way. She made a bird with a wing and three claws (that’s how she described it). Her birds have human faces ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She then decided she wanted to draw with the glue without drawing with a pen first.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then after the glue dried, she painted over it with blue paint.

Drawing All The Time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was just a couple of weeks ago that Anabel first started drawing bodies on her people. Before that, it was a head with legs and arms sticking out. She has been drawing like crazy lately. She is drawing all the time…on paper, on the side walk with chalk, on her doodle board, with crayons, with pens, with chalk, with pencils…all the time. In the above photo, she is holding up a drawing of our house (on grass) and our SUV.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is one that she drew of her when she was a baby in the snow, she said she was playing with a doll house in the snow (never happened by the way…she has never seen snow).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a picture she drew of me. Don’t you love the eyelashes and the nostrils?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of her most frequent drawings is of my grandma laying in bed. My grandma is very special to her and she hasn’t been feeling very well lately so she spends a lot of time sleeping.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She also drew a picture of our cousin Alex who she loves very much as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anabel has really been into drawing camels and goats with beards. I believe the goats are because her favorite audiobook to listen to in the car is a fairy tale compilation that contains Three Billy Goats Gruff (she can repeat the entire story word for word like it is on the cd). The above picture is a camel with a beard and four legs. The beard is bigger than the camel’s head :).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I try to save many of her drawings but they sometimes end up all over the place, so I thought that I would make her a “sketchbook” to keep some of her drawings contained as well as provide her with loose leaf paper. I hole punched some plain copy paper and put it into a 3 prong folder. She was VERY excited by her little book and she took it as a challenge to fill up every single page as fast as she could. She drew her hands and some loopy lines.

Leprechaun Trap

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out that look of wonder on her face as she looks out the window. She is trying to figure out if the leprechaun had really came!

In my class, I challenged my students to make leprechaun traps after reading the book The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day. I had a few takers, one of the cutest ones had a little couch and welcome mat! Then we left the traps out and a sneaky little leprechaun snuck in and made a mess and tricked us by leaving some gold (which we later found out was only chocolate!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I asked Anabel if she wanted to make a leprechaun trap out of some recyclables. My creative little girl absolutely designed the entire thing by herself! She said she wanted it to have “wheels, and windows, and rainbows, and a thing where air comes out”. So her daddy cut out some cardboard wheels. She glued them on. She also attached some rainbow stickers and she drew some windows. As for the air thing, I’m not really sure where she was going with that one. She wanted to put a tp tube on it but then she said she wanted “another thing to go like that” (as she moves her flat palm back and forth). So her dad cut out a piece of cardboard and laid it on the top of the tube. He asked her if she wanted it like that and she gave a satisfied “yes”. I asked her what she meant by the air thing but she said, “a thing like air comes out of!” So I decided to just leave it at that. My husband’s guess is that she is meaning the air vent because we have an air vent on the roof of our car.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just like in my classroom, the leprechaun tricked us. He made us think that he left behind gold, when he actually left behind chocolate!

They Said It (and some adorable pics)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I caught the above pic when my kids where playing together and I heard them laughing hysterically. So of course I had to run and grab a pic as quick as I could. Anabel was pretending to talk on the scanner on her cash register, then she would say bye and slam it down. Her brother thought that it was the funniest thing he had ever seen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My little boy started saying simple sentences! Some that he has said are, “Daddys at work” and “I got the ball” and “look at the meow”. He is still copying everything his sister says…he copies her inflection and everything!

One day, I was getting him ready to go see our friend Teresa. I asked him, “you ready to go see Teresa?” He bowed his head and said, “Aw man, Teresa!” I have no idea where that came from…especially because he likes her so much!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anabel started yelling excitedly for me to come look at how she arranged all of her animals. She said that they were all going to attack the alligator!

One day Anabel noticed that chicken (the food that we eat) has the same name as the animal chicken. So I decided to tell her the truth and let her know that it has the same name because they are the same thing. Well she didn’t believe me. She told me I was silly.

Several days later we were eating chicken again and she said, “Mommy, remember you said that chicken is an animal? See its not moving! Its not an animal!”

But then I think that she decided that I might be telling the truth so she asked me what animals we eat. I told her chicken, pigs, cows, fish, and turkeys.

Later she was playing with her toy animals and she showed me a horse.

She asked me, “what is this horse?”

I asked her, “what do you mean? Its a horse?”

She said, “No, is it a hamburger?”