Showing posts with label ART. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ART. Show all posts

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Creative Christmas Chaos











I've been flexing the creative muscle in my brain to come up with Tree Costumes (tomato cages covered with green blankets) and Crafts for the boys craft day at school.

Now- I know their tree costumes were not the most beauiful, but it only took about an hour of my life span to make them and I do so love to save time. I used the time I saved to have a brief nap before their choir performance at school and we were nearly late- oops.

Saved Time=Nap=Lateness=Chaos.... I couldn't put their cosumes on until we got to the school and ended up trying to do it super-speedily in the parking lot. It was dark so I couldn't find the hole I'd cut out for Carter's head and began to have fits of hysterical laughter. Seriously I could not stop laughing... this impaired me for when I was trying to put Grant's costume on, so I didn't notice that I only got half of his face showing until he was onstage singing. I STILL start giggling when I see these Christmas tree costume pictures of the boys and remember them asking if that's how they were supposed to "look".

Monday, September 20, 2010

Me ART






The boys made tissue paper faces of themselves this week during art. I volunteer at their school every Thursday during art so I'll be getting to help with lots of fun projects this year. I'm already missing getting to go into Madison's classroom to help, but that's just not going to happen now that she's in Jr. High. I was tempted to ask her to make a tissue face of herself at home so I could have one for all my older kids but I resisted this nerdy request. I'm proud of myself for suppressing some of my nerdy qualities!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Egyptian Art




I've been teaching art once a month at Madison's school. February's theme was Balance and the art project involved making imprinted Egyptian Sarcophagus Tombs. After making the imprint the kids traced and colored over their design with Sharpies. I've been doing the art docent thing since October and I really enjoy it. I just tend to procrastinate in planning what we're going to do sometimes. Luckily Madison's teacher doesn't mind my fly by the seat of my pants attitude!

Sunday, August 31, 2008

County Fair ART Submissions




Here are the beatiful ART entries for 2008. The Rocket Adventure by Carter, The Munchy Caterpillar by Grant, and The Badger Path by Madison.