Artists-in-Residence
Fused Glass Field Trip
November 19, 2008
Technically not a "field" trip, more like an art trip. We've done quite a few "learning" excursions with the kids but this by far was my favorite. It was so creative and yielded such great results. A friend of ours and fellow homeschooler organized a trip recently to the Maine ...
Artist-In-Residence Tutorial
November 12, 2008
Two of our resident artists have posted tutorials to their blogs. Both are step by step drawings of "how to draw a motorcycle". Of course you should check it out because these instructions are simply amazing *smile*. My five year old's instructions are more suited to the ability level of ...
Family Fun Can-Do Robots
October 29, 2008
For some inexplicable reason every month I get a copy of Family Fun in my mailbox. I've never subscribed or paid for this magazine. Apparently, the magazine mysteriously shows up in my friend's mailboxes also. Hum... what's going on here?? It's free so I can't complain... but maybe just a ...
Homemade Silly Putty
September 27, 2008
This morning we made an "emergency" trip to the Staples down the road to stock up on Elmer's White Glue. Earlier this week we found a video recipe on-line (there's many) and cleaned out our glue supply making that first batch. This activity proved to be so much fun, keeping ...
Prismacolor Art Supplies
September 10, 2008
We have a very modest homeschooling budget and I can be kind of cheap (Damien is curing me of this) so I initially balked at the cost of buying quality art supplies. But with three artistic, creative children this became a necessity, not luxury. I'd rather buy these than boxes ...
Beet Juice Painting
August 6, 2008
I steamed farm beets for supper last week (a vegetable I'm learning to love) and saved the "juice" left in the bottom of the pan. I stored the juice, about 2/3 cup, in a glass jar in the fridge and pulled it out yesterday for the kids to paint with. ...
Introducing Playful Learning
August 4, 2008
I'm very pleased to share a web resource I recently stumbled on via a comment left on my blog. Playful Learning is a website with blog posts that feature "simple, playful learning experiences that parents can easily share with their children". I personally like the simple part. Discovering this website/blog ...
