12.30.2012
Wreath
I've loved these kinds of wreaths for years but they're [in my opinion] way overpriced and so is the garland. I found some on sale (70% off Christmas at craft stores right now) for cheap and made a wreath with one of my least favorite barely functional embroidery hoops. Just hot glued the garland on, all facing the same direction. Very pleased with it:
12.29.2012
Christmas Projects
Advent Calendar: There was a different picture in each pocket.
Paper hand print tree.
My favorite project I did with my class:
Two of Mercury's paintings, gifts.
Hand-strung necklaces as gifts from Mercury.
She picked the beads and strung them all herself, I just added the clasps when she was done.
Christmas pictures, just for fun.
12.23.2012
Fancifully Adorned Stick
Check out this fun project I did with Mercury today:
Mercury has a thing for sticks and picked another one up the other day while we were outside so we thought we'd dress it up a little. We found a bunch of random beads/buttons- I am a bead/button hoarder and have hundreds if not thousands of beads and buttons that I will likely never use. I have a whole container my mother gave me last year that she'd had for years...I have beads from my great grandmother. So, we got those out and some paint pens, ribbon scraps, snippets of old colorful drinking straws, scrap puzzle pieces and googly eyes. She told me what she wanted and where, while I manned the hot glue gun. She's getting really into processes in her art now. She colors with all manner of coloring media and then cuts and glues and uses stickers on the same paper.
Using multiple techniques within one project makes some great end products. It also gets me really excited about her making something more than just some scribbles on a color page. The stick has started to become a character and will probably star in its own story that we will write and illustrate. The whole thing was a blast, I would highly recommend it.
Mercury has a thing for sticks and picked another one up the other day while we were outside so we thought we'd dress it up a little. We found a bunch of random beads/buttons- I am a bead/button hoarder and have hundreds if not thousands of beads and buttons that I will likely never use. I have a whole container my mother gave me last year that she'd had for years...I have beads from my great grandmother. So, we got those out and some paint pens, ribbon scraps, snippets of old colorful drinking straws, scrap puzzle pieces and googly eyes. She told me what she wanted and where, while I manned the hot glue gun. She's getting really into processes in her art now. She colors with all manner of coloring media and then cuts and glues and uses stickers on the same paper.
finished products
Using multiple techniques within one project makes some great end products. It also gets me really excited about her making something more than just some scribbles on a color page. The stick has started to become a character and will probably star in its own story that we will write and illustrate. The whole thing was a blast, I would highly recommend it.
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