Week 44: Pictures as coloring pages (September 19, 2012)

I found a website where you could turn a photo into a coloring page.  So I did that then turned them into baseball cards.  I printed 16 of them and let everyone choose a picture.

(Zoe, Wayne

Jamie, Henry)

Week 43: Coffee Filters (September 12, 2012)

We colored with markers on coffee filters to see how the markers reacted.

(Zoe, Henry

Jamie, Wayne)

Week 42: Letters of our names (September 5, 2012)

I gave everyone letter stamps representing each letter of their name and told them to create a picture.

(Wayne, Henry

Zoe

Jamie)

Week 41: Crayons and watercolors (August 29, 2012)

It didn't work like it was supposed to but first you color a picture with a white crayon then watercolor over it to reveal the design.

(Wayne, Jamie

Zoe, Henry)

Week 40: Giraffes (August 8, 2012)

We are back!  We took a break for T-Ball but now we are back to our routine.

I recently found some stamps in my craft supplies so I made a few baseball cards that are more like coloring pages.  This time we all had giraffes.

Wayne, Henry

Zoe, Jamie

Week 39: Make your own ice cream (July 19, 2012)

I cut out a bunch of options for ice cream cones, dishes, and flavors.  Then everyone made their own ice cream.   We also had stickers and stamps for added "flavor"

Wayne (He had to use two bowls because I didn't make big enough ones), Henry

Zoe, and Jamie

Week 38: Dragon Fly (July 11, 2012)

Henry (with the mama), Jamie

Wayne, Zoe

We used this as our guide

Week 37: Paint and Bubbles (June 27, 2012)

Zoe, Jamie

Wayne, Henry

Week 36: Rainbows (June 13, 2012)

We are a little behind.  This is from 2 weeks ago.  We didn't do one last week because Zoe was at vacation bible school all week.  Hopefully we will be able to do some tomorrow even though we have swimming lessons for the next two weeks.  

Henry, Zoe

Jamie, Wayne

Week 35: Eraser Art (June 6, 2012)

We used the eraser on the end of a pencil and several different ink pads to create these.

Wayne, Zoe

Henry (he also used his fingers),  Jamie

Week 34: Ladybugs (May 30,2012)

This week we made ladybugs and we even had two guests join us.

Grandma H (w/ Henry's help); Henry (w/ Grandma's help)

Jamie; Zoe

Grandpa H; Wayne

Week 33: Mama's Birthday (May 23, 2012)

Zoe

Henry (purple cake), Wayne

Jamie

Week 32: Leaf Rubbings (May 16, 2012)

We missed a week due to a busy week but here we are again.

We found leaves in our yard and did leaf rubbings.

Wayne, Jamie

Henry (its there just really light), Zoe

Week 31: Cars (May 2, 2012)

I think we may watch Cars the Movie a little too much.  The theme was cars and we all drew pixar cars.  Henry had a little help from the mama.  He colored it in though.

Jamie - Tow Mater, Zoe - Lightening MaQueen

Henry - Zoe says it can be Sally, Wayne - Filmore

Week 30: Lego Stamps (April 26, 2012)

We used legos as stamps.

(Jamie, Zoe

Wayne, Henry)

Week 29: Monsters (April 18, 2012)

Things didn't go as planned.  We were going to do foam dino stickers (see Henry's) but they were just too big.  So we did Monsters instead.  

And we had a guest.....

(Grandma C., Wayne, Zoe

Henry, Jamie)

Week 28: Crazy Hair (April 11, 2012)

I drew a person for everyone that looked generally the same and gave the instructions to give the person Crazy Hair.  

Wayne, Zoe

Jamie, Henry

Week 27: Easter Eggs (April 4, 2012)

Wayne (Ms. Easter 2012), Henry

Jamie, Zoe (A rainbow egg and the easter bunny)

Week 26: Mountains (March 28, 2012)

Wayne, Henry

Zoe, Jamie

Week 25: What we are looking forward to this summer (March 21, 2012)

Henry (Hot Dogs), Wayne (Camping in the backyard)

Jamie (watching the kids swim and reading a good book), Zoe (Rae and me were putting our feet in the water and we really wanted it to rain because it was hot then it rained and we were happy, that is the sun behind the clouds)

Week 24: Clean Plate Club (March 15, 2012)

Wayne, Henry

Zoe, Jamie

This weeks card was supposed to be something else but we made a quick change.

Everyone in our house finished their dinner which has NEVER happened before in our house. So we made badges for the clean plate club.

Week 23: Marble Painting (March 7, 2012)

Wayne, Zoe

Jamie, Henry

See how we did it here

Week 22: Glitter Glue (February 29, 2012)

Zoe, Henry, Jamie, Wayne

Week 21: Dinosaurs (February 22, 2012)

Zoe, Jamie

Henry, Wayne

Week 20: Valentines (February 14, 2012)

Henry, Wayne,

Jamie, Zoe (she said hers was Storm Water)

We used our new homemade heart crayons and experimented with the colors.

Week 19: Space (February 8, 2012)

Wayne, Henry (the moon)

Zoe (rocket ship with two stands), Jamie

Week 18: Alphabet (February 2, 2012)

Everyone was given a baseball card with the first letter of their name and told to make something with it.

Wayne - Lady Fish from "the Incredible Mt Limpet", Jamie - Umbrella

Zoe - Mama's office, Henry - Cookie

Week 17: Penguins (January 26, 2012)

We followed directions to draw penguins.

Henry, Wayne (Penguin on vacation)

Zoe (rainbow penguin), Jamie

Week 16: Treasure (January 19, 2012)

Zoe, Wayne

Henry, Jamie

Week 15: Scrap paper (January 11, 2012)

Wayne, Jamie

Zoe, Henry

Week 14: Feet Art (January 5, 2012)

This week I traced everyone's foot on their card; then they were to turn the shape into something else.

Zoe - a mountain, Jamie - Ski Slopes

Wayne - an Island, Henry- a cookie