Wall Sculpture

Believe it or not... these oblong pieces are made up of 1" cuts of paper towel rolls.  The girls and I painted them with acrylics; then we laid out our design on a table top.  The last step was to hot glue all these pieces together.

We used a few nails to hang it on the wall in the girls' room.  Lovely!

Abstract

This is Cameron's own design.  She used watercolors for the background:  cobalt blue, cerulean blue, and cobalt violet.  She used acrylics in similar shades for her foreground.  Her last step was some fun spattering!










Beautiful! 

Crock-pot chocolate

Yummy! Yummy!  Easy recipe from the net.  Just dump in slow cooker, wait 3 hours, spoon onto wax paper, and wait 'til cool.  Chocolate covered peanuts and coconut!  

Plastic Bottle Fish

Marcella is a whiz at being able to figure out how to make things.  She saw these fish made by 5th graders at her school and knew exactly what to do.  So, Grandpa saved her two plastic 2-liter bottles.

We cut off the bottoms (which make great water holders when painting with watercolors).

We flattened the "tail" and stapled. Marcella is drawing the back fin.

After using Sharpies to color, Marcella adds a fishy smile.

Cameron & Marcella show their fishy lips below the bottle fish.

Great job, girls!

Fun with Pipe Cleaners!

When the girls wake up early, they often get creative with pipe cleaners....

Christmas Puppet Play

The girls wrote and performed "It's Christmas-Time!" They made all the costumes and props. 

Halloween!

The girls wrote "little books" with a Halloween theme.












We painted pumpkins. Marcella made Dracula, and Cameron made an angel (look closely for the halo).






Then, we made Mummy Dogs & Cheesy Ghost crackers (made from crescent rolls) for dinner.









Doesn't La-Li look adorable in her ladybug costume?? Somebody needs braces.