Posted in art, JBug on Sep 27th, 2010 11 Comments »
Last week’s art project was great fun for JBug. Our artist was Michelangelo so we spent some time looking at gorgeous images of his sculpture and paintings, most especially the amazing Sistine Chapel. (really cool virtual tour here) JBug was in awe to learn that he spent 4 years mostly on his back, painting the [...]
Posted in art, JBug on Sep 14th, 2010 5 Comments »
I’m pretty pleased with how our art appreciation is going this year. I wrote about my art plans for JBug for the year in a previous post, and for the most part we are following them closely. We spend two weeks per artist. The first week is spent getting to know an artist and a [...]
Posted in art, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., science, Superboy's projects on Aug 26th, 2010 7 Comments »
Aren’t we all? Works in progress, I mean? I could probably title EVERY post “works in progress” and remain accurate!LOL! That being said, this year has started off more smoothly than perhaps any year before and we are really hitting a groove here. I am beginning to feel like all of the plans I stressed [...]
Posted in art, Curriculum or Lack Thereof..., pre-school on Apr 21st, 2010 3 Comments »
This looks like the start… of something big…
Posted in art on Oct 23rd, 2009 7 Comments »
Oh, what fun! Just to liven things up I issued a little art challenge to the kiddos the other day: Lets each paint a self portrait, following these few rules (made up from my very odd brain): make it two-sided (showing two emotions, two aspects of your character, two expressions, two whatever , just so [...]
Posted in art, JBug on Oct 16th, 2009 11 Comments »
Still in the mood for some fall color, JBug’s been doing some craft projects lately. (Note: I think of “art” projects and “craft” projects as very different things. Do you? Though I admit that I am not sure exactly how to define the difference and that there is certainly some overlap, especially in the younger [...]
Posted in art on Oct 9th, 2009 12 Comments »
The simple fact is that we get no fall color here. And I admit that I really, really miss the riotous color associated with the changing of the seasons in Alaska and North Carolina where we’ve lived before. It’s the downside of the endless summer we enjoy here. But I am trying to look on [...]
Posted in art on Sep 12th, 2009 5 Comments »
We finally got around to doing an activity I had in mind for a long time: making our own puzzles! We used this book for inspiration: The Underwater Alphabet Book (Jerry Pallotta’s Alphabet Books) It is one of our favorites because of the bright, beautiful illustrations, and the ocean theme. We took a pack of [...]
Posted in art on Sep 10th, 2009 17 Comments »
I know it’s supposed to be “blue” bird of happiness, but isn’t this just the happiest little picture? JBug was playing around with our new brayer (thanks to inspiration from one of my favorite art blogs, Daisy Yellow) and created such a lovely, colorful background! I knew it shouldn’t go to waste, so I suggested [...]
Posted in art on Sep 9th, 2009 9 Comments »
Some of you may recall how I like to set up little art prompts for the kids so that they will see them first thing in the morning. Here is what the kids woke up to this morning: I call it 3 objects 4 ways. The title is pretty self-explanatory, but the idea was for [...]
