Our Family Blog – Mike, Louanne, Nadia, Amelie, & Dani
Supplies.
Next up in our art lessons was a potato painting and drawing of “Old King Cole.” We have the song on one of our Music Together CD’s and the girls had fun singing along after the project.
First they had to make potato prints with the tempera paint and let them dry.
Then it was time to draw on all the little details.
I like how they each have their own style for the “fiddlers 3,” the pipe and his bowl. Too fun!
Color matching and patterns.
Amelie has REALLY wanted to “do school like sissy” but she wasn’t totally ready. Without her knowing it, she has been learning all along with the games that we play and other activities, but the various comments she made showed me she wanted to feel official. She is now recovered from her two major hand surgeries earlier in the year and all of the fine motor skill work I have been doing with her doesn’t seem like school in her 4 year old mind. So I told her we were going to make her first lapbook for school. She was SO.EXCITED.
We started with the Pretty Bugs Printables. I let Amelie pick out what color folder she wanted to create her lapbook and she went for green.
Letter practice.
Do-A-Dots are always a hit in our house.
She was so proud once it was all finished and I liked how many skills the printable pack included. I look forward to doing more and more of this with Amelie.
Supplies prepped for two 🙂
Amelie “needed” to do her art in princess earrings.
Working hard on each step.
All the pieces of their collages need to dry overnight.
Adding the finishing touches.
I got this idea from the Steve Spangler site. Fast, easy, fun and the girls screamed with delight when it worked! You only need three things for this experiment: glass bowl, lukewarm water and M&M’s.
Place some M&M’s in the bottom of the bowl. Fill with enough lukewarm water to cover about an inch over the candy.
Keep your eyes on the bowl because the color starts coming off immediately.
AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH the letters are coming off!
If you look closely, you can see the the M’s popped off the candy and floated to the top. It happened so quickly that the girls loved it.