Ash of All Trades

This past week we did a theme of Eyes for Little C (big c also participated of course!) We read some great books on eyes such as: Dr. Seuss' The Eye Book Eric Carle's Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do you See Judy Hindley's Eyes Nose Fingers and Toes We also played tape the eye on the face. Then laughed at how funny she looked! We colored in eye coloring sheets and labeled the parts. Little C is getting much better at attempting to color within a particular area! (Sorry this is side ways it won't let me change it) I drew people and we talked about their different body parts. We cut face pieces out of magazines then glued  them into our Taro Gami book. Big C's man face! We also sang Head Shoulders Knees and Toes many times and pointed out the color of everyone's Iris (our vocab word). We also focused on the letter D, color Blue, Diamond, and #4. It was a very productive week and Little C is LOVING all o...

Hope this week is treating you all well - I know I am thrilled to have a huge project done!  The canvas art for Big C's Room!  These were a lot of fun and a lot of work - while they didn't come out looking "professional" I do feel that they turned out awesome - considering I am not artsy (craftsy yes artsy no) and have NEVER EVER painted anything before!  So we started with four 20" x 20" canvases from Michaels (they were 40% off and only cost $29 total!) you can also get them on Amazon.com ( Art Alternatives Original Cotton Stretched Studio Canvas - ) To paint them a solid color I just poured paint all over then used foam brushes to even it out!  We just used the big bottles of Acrylic Paint like this . A couple of finished ones - we thankfully had a huge box left over from our new shed!  Kept the mess to a minimum and kind of kept it out of the kids way! Now these are in no way free handed - we used a projector  and computer printouts to draw ...