Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Look who came for a visit

We live near a nature preserve and we have the most beautiful cardinals and blue jays that fly by. But we also have 8 or 9 roosters and chickens living around the corner. And it's really funny because sometimes they'll get loose and stop traffic and I'll have shoo them to safety. Yhea people get a good laugh when watching.
But this week 2 or them figured out how to get loose and walked around the corner and have been hanging out in front of my home. They love corn and sunflower seeds and are very friendly. You really cant catch them because their fast runners. But they have no problem getting close if your feeding.



And yes this little guy had no problem waking me up for work this morning. :(


Baby It's Cold Outside!

Snowflake Suncatchers
How do you make fun of the cold weather? Winter Art!

-Construction paper, Contact paper, Tissue Paper/Confetti & Scissors
I totally grabbed this project from Frugal Family Fun Blog. I'm a big fan of any site that shows me how to create projects on a budget. A big +



This is a really easy project but I did precut the snowflakes for the kids. After they enjoyed cutting tissue paper to make confetti and sprinkled it over the contact paper. And Viola' ! Yes this project is great for making hearts for Valentines Day or Shamrocks for St. Patricks. It's so much fun and inexpensive to do. And I really love how brightly the colors shine through.



Monday, January 11, 2010

Last Minute Project

 Buildings
-Construction paper, Colored Chalk or Pencils, Scissors & Watercolors
This is an easy project I'd like to share. I found some chalk in my art supply closet and thought it would be great idea to have the kids cut out some buildings and draw in some windows. After the kids glued it to their paper and they filled the backround in with watercolors.




You can really get creative with this one. When the paint dries you can cut out a sun, trees or people. I'd like to try this again in the future. Maybe make a large mural on butcher paper. But enjoy!

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

This Works Well With Music

A Little Bit Of Kandinsky
Yesterday we spoke about the artist Wassily Kandinsky a Russian abstract artist. I tried to talk about movement and shapes with the children. We danced in cirlces and made movements with our arms. I wanted them to create movement in their art. I found this project straight from Deep Space Sparkle Art Lessons for Kids: Kinders paint Kandinsky. I love this site.

Dancing With Circles
 - Black/White Paper, Colorful Stock Paper, Glue Sticks and Scissors
I had the children cut circles in different sizes and then glue them on their paper.
So red dances with yellow and black dances with purple etc..





The older children painted their Kandinsky's.



It's Hard Work But Somebody's Got To Do It!